Reporters without Borders 1
May 22, 2017
First jail sentence in Kurdish newspaper solidarity trials
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is alarmed to see that the Turkish authorities are stepping up their persecution of those who took part...
BBC News
May 5, 2017
Living proof: Surviving a massacre
Some deny a genocide ever occurred in Srebrenica. One survivor continues to live there to provide testimony of what happened....
International Crisis Group 1
May 2, 2017
Managing Turkey’s PKK Conflict: The Case of Nusaybin
Executive Summary Nusaybin, a political stronghold of the Kurdish movement bordering Syria, is among Turkey’s urban south-eastern...
International Crisis Group 1
Apr 28, 2017
New Balkan Turbulence Challenges Europe
The trouble in the Balkans today is not Russian meddling, though there is some of that, but a special case of the malaise afflicting...
Washington Post
Apr 26, 2017
Turkey deports foreigners working with Syrian refugees
The Turkish government this week deported foreigners working with Syrian refugees at a leading U.S.-based aid organization, part of what...
Al Jazeera
Apr 26, 2017
Refugee boat sinks between Greece and Turkey, 16 drown
At least 16 people, including two children, have drowned when an inflatable boat sank in the eastern Aegean Sea between Greece and...
New York Times 1
Apr 26, 2017
Over 1,000 Police Officers Are Detained in Raids in Turkey
Officers suspected of supporting the American-based cleric Fethullah Gulen were escorted to the police headquarters in Kayseri, Turkey,...
Genocide Watch
Apr 22, 2017
‘Sherlock Holmes of Armenian Genocide’ Uncovers Lost Evidence
A small stream flowing into the Dudan cave in Turkey. It was here that the Armenian residents of a local village are said to have been...
New York Times 1
Apr 20, 2017
Battle Over 2 Films Reflects Turkey’s Quest to Control a Bitter History
By Cara Buckley If history was any guide, the director Terry George figured there’d be weirdness around his new film, “The Promise,”...
New York Times 1
Apr 12, 2017
Turkey in Turmoil and Chaos Since Purge Aimed at Dissenters
A sign in Istanbul asks for yes votes on Sunday in a referendum that would expand the powers of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey,...
Al Jazeera
Mar 31, 2017
Chios: Syrian refugee critical after 'self-immolation'
More than 60,000 refugees are stranded across Greece [File: Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters] CHICOS, Greece— A Syrian refugee is in critical...
Foreign Policy
Mar 29, 2017
Turkey Is a Dictatorship Masquerading as a NATO Democracy
By Elliot Ackerman In the lead-up to Turkey’s constitutional referendum on April 16, Selahattin Demirtas, the co-chair of the...
