Turkey aims to extend influence through Turks abroad
By David Lepeska Ahval Ankara is quietly honing a new foreign policy tool, recruiting millions of Turks overseas to do its bidding. Turkish President Recep [more >>>]
Turkey’s purge of academia
With scholars in Turkey being imprisoned in their thousands, Gavin Tracey examines the political forces driving these increasingly totalitarian policies. By Gavin Tracey University Observer [more >>>]
Turkey’s Erdoğan lambastes Council of State over student oath decision he dislikes
By SCF Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan lambasted the Council of State, which recently issued a decision reinstating the daily recitation of a student oath [more >>>]
Clampdown on foreign journalists in Turkey
By SCF Turkey, the most notorious country in the world in terms of jailing journalists, with 237 currently behind bars, has also come after foreign [more >>>]
Free Thought under Siege in Turkey: the Crackdown on Education
By SCF – Crackdown on the education sector in Turkey victimized nearly 100,000 teachers and academics Download Report in PDF format. The crackdown on critical [more >>>]
‘Erdoğan’s Long Arm: The Case of Sweden’
By SCF Turkey has expanded its witch hunt against critics to Sweden, using government institutions, affiliated NGOs and operatives, a report released by the Stockholm [more >>>]
Turkish academic leaving as ‘scholar at risk’
AHVAL A liberal scholar known for his activism in favour of a referendum change in 2010 is planning to leave Turkey for a position at [more >>>]
The Remarkable Scale of Turkey’s “Global Purge”
How It Became a Threat to the Rule of Law Everywhere By Nate Schenkkan FOREIGN AFFAIRS In October of last year, Turkish President Recep Tayyip [more >>>]
Azerbaijan: Intensified Crackdown
Authorities Stifle Critics, Impede Work of Independent Groups (Berlin) – The Azerbaijani government sentenced at least 25 journalists and political and youth activists to long [more >>>]
Growing Up in Armenia’s Border Villages
By GAYANE MRZOYAN and GAYANE MKRTCHYAN Chai Khana Fourteen-year old Tigran Gharakhanyan walks to school in a crouch, flattening himself up against buildings on his [more >>>]