With more than 50 thousand political prisoners, Turkey has lost its connection with democracies in the world under Erdogan rule. Since the Gezi…
Robert Spano, new president of the European Court of Human Rights gave an online interview to Mikael Rask Madsen. The interview is followed…
Turkey’s scoreboard of massive human rights violations looks ever worst even after two and a half year since the failed coup. Once a…
In the follow up to the attempted coup in July 2016, the Turkish government launched an unprecedented attack on press freedom: Thousands of journalists lost of their jobs, hundreds were arrested on terror charges, dozens of media outlets were shutdown and the journalists who remained worked in fear. Turkey is now the largest jailer of…
Turkey has been going through a catastrophic period since the Gezi protests in June 2013 and launch of a corruption probe into President…
After the Gezi protests in June 2013, Turkey’s strong man President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has changed his path from democracy to an authoritarian…
It has been over a month since the simultaneous presidential and general elections were held in Turkey this year. Now that the dust…
[dropcap size=big]I[/dropcap]t is becoming more and more clear Turkey’s justice system is a broken one. Decisions are arbitrary and entirely political. The crackdown…
[dropcap size=big]I[/dropcap]n the late spring of 2013, Istanbul was aflame in an intoxicating, revolutionary atmosphere. What started as an environmentalist sit-in protest against…
Turkey’s relations with Syria either direct –bilateral or regionally multilateral- or indirect -through Turkey’s bilateral and multilateral alliances, i.e. Israel in the 1990s…
[dropcap size=big]T[/dropcap]he 18th March 2018 marked an apparent high point for Turkish interests in the Syrian civil conflict of the past seven years.…
[dropcap size=big]F[/dropcap]ew were surprised that the independence referendum held in the Kurdish Region of Iraq (KRI) on 25 September 2017 produced a 93%…
[dropcap size=big]O[/dropcap]n March 1, there was a seemingly harmless incident on the Greek-Turkish border in the Evros district of Western Thrace. Two Greek…
Newroz, the Kurdish variant of the spring festival commonly known as Nowruz and associated with Iran, is a quintessential example of a subversive…
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[dropcap size=big]A[/dropcap]s a part of an international phenomena, the Turkish regime has tightened its grip on the Turkish people. As a…
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[dropcap size=big]T[/dropcap]here has always been a militarist streak in the political discourse in Turkey, except perhaps for certain periods when Foreign…
[dropcap size=big]I[/dropcap]n the recently published World Justice Project 2017-2018 Rule of Law Index, Turkey’s scores continued to decline and the country dropped to…
The Inconvenience of Peace
[dropcap size=big]T[/dropcap]here was a paradox in the relative leniency on Kurdish cultural and political expression that was permitted…