Turkey’s media watchdog fines TV show for dance ‘against public morality’
Hurriyet Daily News Turkey’s media watchdog has fined a TV show 410,000 Turkish Liras for “immorality,” after it showed husbands dancing with other women while [more >>>]
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“Time is on nobody’s side,” Azeri, Armenian analysts discussed Karabakh in Washington
By ALAKBAR RAUFOGLU contact.az WASHINGTON – A group of Azerbaijani and Armenian civil society actors and representatives of the US, European think-tanks gathered in Washington, [more >>>]
Hurriyet: University opens competition to mark ‘genocide committed by Armenians against Turks’
By BAHADIR ÖZGÜR Hurriyet Daily News A university in Ankara has opened a controversial poster competition to mark the 100th anniversary of the 1915 incidents [more >>>]
Why is Azerbaijan buying up sporting events? – video
By OWEN GIBSON The Guardian In 2015, Azerbaijan will host the first European Games in the capital city of Baku. President Ilham Aliyev sees it [more >>>]
Turkey Appeals ECHR Verdict on Compulsory Religion Classes
BIA News Desk On its last day of application, Turkey appealed to the European Court of Human Right (ECHR) verdict on compulsory religion classes including [more >>>]
Inside the court of Azerbaijan’s Ilham Aliyev
By JAMES DEBONO Malta Today Other western governments have courted the Azeri dictatorship despite its abysmal human rights record. But has Joseph Muscat chosen the [more >>>]
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By ALAKBAR RAUFOGLU Azadliq The U.S. nonprofit organization IREX (International Research and Exchange Board) has worked in post-Soviet Azerbaijan for 16 years supporting academic exchanges [more >>>]
Is Turkey’s foreign policy based on democratic values – or pan-Islamist ideology?
By BEHLÜL ÖZKAN openDemocracy This article is a response to a conversation between Richard Falk and Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, which took place on [more >>>]
Retiring Moran in negotiations with Azerbaijani influence group
By PETER OLSEN-PHILLIPS Sunlight Foundation During the final weeks of his last term in the House, retiring congressman Jim Moran, a Democrat who still represented [more >>>]
The End of Turkey in Europe
By NATE SCHENKKAN, Program Officer, Eurasia Freedom House On December 17, 2013, Turkey woke up to mass police raids across the country. The chief executive [more >>>]