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In Turkey, Critics of Erdogan’s Government Claim Familiar Pattern of Reprisal
The fallout from the June protests in Turkey is settling into a growing pattern of reprisal against those dissenting against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, critics of his government say. But that...
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How the Ergenekon Verdicts May Deepen Turkey’s Political Divide
A heavily guarded Turkish court on Monday handed down verdicts against 275 defendants — whose ranks include former generals, parliamentarians and journalists — on charges of plotting to overthrow the...
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For Turkey, Planned U.S. Missile Strikes on Syria Not Good Enough
For some American allies, such as the UK, whose parliament seemed to reject any armed involvement in Syria on Thursday, punitive airstrikes against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad might be...
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Amid Explosions and Clashes, Volatile Turkey-Syria Border Gets More Dangerous
It’s far from what the Turks had in mind. In late 2009, at the height of its detente with Syria, the Ankara government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan lifted visa requirements for Syrian nationals and floated...
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Kurdish Rebels Warn Of New Conflict in Turkey
Kurdish insurgents said they are prepared to reignite a guerrilla conflict within Turkey and have accused Ankara of waging a proxy war against their forces by funding Islamist insurgents in Syria....
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Turkish Tunnel Opens First Undersea Link Between Two Continents
Some 153 years ago, Turkey’s Sultan Abdul Mejid envisioned an undersea tunnel that would span the Bosporus Strait and link Europe to Asia. It was a bit far-fetched for the time, but today it will...
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Turkey’s Erdogan Battles Country’s Most Powerful Religious Movement
Both were religious men. In the early 1970s, Cemal Usak and Recep Tayyip Erdogan were classmates at the Istanbul Imam Hatip Lisesi, an Islamic high school. By the end of the decade, their career paths...
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Turkish Police Chiefs Fired After High-Profile Bribery Arrests
Five police chiefs have been fired in Turkey following dawn raids on Tuesday in which scores of people were arrested for alleged bribery, including sons of cabinet ministers. The police chiefs sacked...
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Turkey’s House of Cards Moment: Arrests and Scandal Signal a Crisis for Erdogan
In May 2011, a month before parliamentary elections that were to sweep him to power for the third time since 2002, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan triumphantly unveiled his “Two Cities”...
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Turkish Leader Lashes Out At Corruption Probe
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan suggested that he is the target of an unfolding graft investigation that’s led to the arrests of dozens of officials and shaken the Turkish leader’s hold on...
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How Erdogan’s Troubles Are Good for Turkey
Translation does not do proper service to Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, the full name of the party headed by Turkey’s besieged Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. In English, it comes out as “Justice...
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Turkey Axes 350 Police Officers
Turkey removed 350 police officers from their posts in a midnight purge in Ankara on Tuesday, as the government continues its response to a sweeping public corruption probe. The 350 officers were part...
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Turkish Authorities Raid NGO Alleging Al-Qaeda Links
Turkish anti-terror forces have stormed the offices of an NGO providing humanitarian relief to Syrians affected by the ongoing civil war, claiming that the organization is aiding al-Qaeda. According to...
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Erdogan Visits Iran As Trouble Mounts at Home
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan escaped from a sweeping graft probe at home to visit Iran in hopes of easing tensions over the region’s handling of Syria’s civil war, state media reported...
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Turkey’s New Internet Law Draws Criticism
A law passed by Turkey’s parliament Wednesday gives the government extensive new controls over the Internet amid a growing corruption scandal, leading critics to cry foul over curtailed freedoms. Under...
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Turkish Officials Search Plane After Bomb Threat
A flight from Ukraine to Istanbul was searched by Turkish security forces on Friday after a passenger claimed a bomb was on board and, according to some reports, demanded the plane be rerouted to the...
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Turkish PM Tightens Control Of Judges As Lawmakers Brawl
A brawl broke out on the floor of the Turkish Parliament Saturday shortly before lawmakers passed a law increasing government control over the appointment of judges and prosecutors. The government of...
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Turkish Leader Calls Audio Recordings Fake Amid Corruption Scandal
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday that voice recordings purportedly depicting him telling his son to dispose of large sums of money amid a graft probe are fabricated. The...
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Can Turkey’s Erdogan Stay in Power?
In its first eight decades as a republic, the biggest question facing Turkey was one of identity. Would it be the secular democracy envisioned by its founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, or a nation...
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Did Egypt Experience a Coup? The West May Not Be Sure, but Turkey Is
As the U.S. State Department performs all sorts of semantic gymnastics to avoid defining the Egyptian army’s ouster of the country’s Islamist President Mohamed Morsi as a coup, politicians in Turkey...
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