Why Turkey’s Mother of All Corruption Scandals Refuses to Go Away
By BERIVAN ORUCOGLU Foreign Policy It’s now been just over a year since Turks learned of the most serious corruption case in our country’s recent [more >>>]
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Turkey’s President Accuses Advocates of Birth Control of Being Traitors
By CEYLAN YEGINSU The New York Times ISTANBUL — He has called women unequal to men. He has demanded that some high school students learn [more >>>]
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 >>>]
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 >>>]
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 >>>]
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 >>>]
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 >>>]
Black Sunday: The day Turkey detained its prominent journalists
Today’s Zaman The government-orchestrated crackdown on independent critical media outlets in Turkey took a turn for the worse on Sunday with dawn raids on Turkey’s [more >>>]
Zaman editor-in-chief detained in media operation
Sunday’s Zaman Editor-in-chief of Turkey’s Zaman daily, critical of the government, was detained on Sunday in a police operation that targeted journalists, TV script writers [more >>>]
Europe, Central Asia and the state of corruption in 2014: the gold standard?
Transparency International Perhaps it should come as no surprise that out of 175 countries in the 2014 Corruption Perceptions Index, the once great economic hope [more >>>]