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Turkey gripped by student protests over university freedoms
Source:Financial Times Date:06Feb2021
Seren Selvin Korkmaz, executive director of the IstanPol think-tank, believes Erdogan has deliberately stoked the protests — and played up the divisive LGBT rights dimension — in an effort to
A path for Joe Biden to reset US relations with Turkey
Source:Financial Times Date:31Jan2021
There are many obstacles to a grand bargain between Ankara and Washington. Both sides would have to bend. Any road map would at the very least feature: a reappraisal of US support for the Syrian
Joe Biden will find ample potential for acrimony in the Middle East
Source:Financial Times Date:20Jan2021
And then there is Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Turkey, a wobbly Nato ally that buys Russian missiles and busts US sanctions on Iran, while deploying hard power across the region. This multi-barrelled
How Capitol Hill riots will complicate Turkey-US ties
Source:al Monitor Date:15Jan2021
Erdogan also seems to be seeking a reset, as Ankara’s recent attempts to mend ties with Western countries and their regional allies show. In a compelling and controversial Dec. 29 Forbes
What is behind Austria’s plan to outlaw ‘political Islam’?
Source:Financial Times Date:01Dec2020
Mr Kurz changed the legislation to stipulate criteria for the appointment of imams, restrict foreign funding for religious institutions and designate representative bodies. In June 2018, as
Turkey opens secret channel to fix ties with Israel
Source:al Monitor Date:01Dec2020
“What Turkey can provide at this point, and Israel would want, are Turkish reassurances that Hamas is not using its soil to orchestrate terror activities againt it and the Palestinian
Biden Era, Russia Rifts Jolt Turkey Back Toward Ties With West
Source:Bloomberg Date:28Nov2020
After he was sworn in with sweeping executive power more than two years ago, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made a high-stakes pivot away from the pursuit of closer ties with the West. Turkey
Populists worldwide have lost their leader
Source:Financial Times Date:09Nov2020
The outgoing US president is the informal leader of the populist international. Its most important outposts are the governments of Brazil, Poland and Hungary. There are also significant
While America counts its votes, Erdogan advances his agenda
Source:al Monitor Date:08Nov2020
Erdogan has launched Turkey on an increasingly assertive and independent regional posture. Unlike Americans on the right and left, the concept of “endless wars” doesn’t register for
Turkey’s prison population increased by 10 percent to 291,546 in 2019: TurkStat
Source:Stockholm Center for Freedom Date:04Nov2020
The number of inmates in Turkey’s prisons who were either in pre-trial detention or convicted of a crime was 291,546 in 2019, a 10.1 percent increase over the previous year, according to data