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,...
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...
The Independent
Mar 22, 2017
It is President Erdogan's Turkey, not humane Germany, that is guilty of 'Nazi practices'
There was something especially obscene about Turkish president Erdogan’s comparison of Angela Merkel’s Germany with the Nazis. “Nazi...
Washington Post
Mar 7, 2017
Turkey shuts down a U.S. aid group that helped Syrians
A displaced Syrian family unload their belongings at a makeshift camp for displaced people near the town of Manbij, Syria. (Delil...
Paul Antonopoulos | AINA
Feb 21, 2017
Turkish Airstrikes Target Kurdish PKK in Iraq
Turkish war planes illegally operating in Iraq have targeted Kurdistan Worker Party (PKK) positions. At least 34 fighters of the PKK, in...
Reporting by Orhan Coskun | Writing by Daren
Feb 21, 2017
Turkish Military Says 44 Islamic State Militants Killed in Syria
Forty-four Islamic State militants were killed by Turkey-backed operations around the Syrian town of al-Bab and in U.S.-led coalition air...
Foreign Policy
Jan 8, 2017
Foreign Policy: 10 Conflicts to Watch in 2017
The world is entering its most dangerous chapter in decades. The sharp uptick in war over recent years is outstripping our ability to...
The Washington Times
Jan 6, 2017
Turkish border police reportedly told to wave through bomb supplies for Islamic State in Syria
Turkish intelligence officers ordered the nation’s border police not to inspect truckloads of bomb-making materials shipped by companies...