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Turkish Police Break Up Internet Protest
(ISTANBUL) — Riot police in Istanbul have used water cannons against hundreds of people protesting a government plan to expand controls over the public’s use of Internet. Police did that Saturday to...
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Brawl Breaks Out in Turkish Parliament
(ANKARA, Turkey) — A brawl has occurred in Turkey’s parliament during a debate over the corruption scandal that has ensnared Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government, and an opposition...
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Erdogan’s Paradox: Turkish Leader Struggles Between Authoritarianism and...
Turkey — the bridge between East and West. That’s how the cliché goes, a saying that endures because it’s physically true: “Welcome to Europe” reads the sign on one side of a bridge over the Bosporus,...
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Erdogan’s Crisis: How Protests Undermined Turkish Leader’s Legacy
In 2011, as regional leaders were toppled from power, one after the other, Turkey’s strident Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan looked like he had it all: a thriving economy (the world’s...
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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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Police Clash with Kurdish Protesters in Turkey
(ANKARA, Turkey) — Turkish media reports say Kurdish demonstrators have clashed with police in several towns in southeastern Turkey during protests marking the 15th anniversary of the capture of...
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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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