ECHR: Turkey Discriminated Cemevis
By EROL ÖNDEROĞLU BIA News Desk The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs’s rejection of paying electricity bills of [more >>>]
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‘No friends of Turkey left in Washington’
BGN News President of think tank ReThink Dr. Fevzi Bilgin expresses that recent policies of the ruling AK Party have all but diminished Turkey’s ties [more >>>]
Turkey Bans Armenian Students from Visiting Artsakh
Asbarez ISTANBUL—Armenian students from all over the world will participate in the 6th Pan-Armenian Games to be held in Yerevan next year. Students from Armenian [more >>>]
Will CHP face its dark past?
By MUSTAFA AKYOL Al Monitor On Nov 12, Sezgin Tanrikulu, deputy chairman of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), unwittingly initiated a controversy in [more >>>]
CHP Unable to Apologize For Dersim Massacre After 76 Years
İstanbul – BIA News Desk (Bianet) The apology made by Republican People’s Party Vice Chairman Sezgin Tanrıkulu on Dersim Massacre stirred controversy in his party. [more >>>]
Engaging Turkey’s leadership
By JOEL SIMON* Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) Last month, a delegation from the Committee to Protect Journalists and the International Press Institute met with [more >>>]
Turkey’s billionaires frighten top economist Piketty
By BARIŞ BALCI Hurriyet Daily News Wealth inequality is particularly worrying for countries like Brazil, China or Turkey, which are home to more billionaires than [more >>>]
Foreign Ministry applies ban to media critical of government
Today’s Zaman The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has stopped sending Foreign Ministry statements and phone text messages to a number of media outlets known to [more >>>]
Turks’ paranoia explained by their past
By MUSTAFA AKYOL (*) Al Monitor A poll by the Pew Research Center in October highlighted a trend in Turkish society with foreign policy implications: [more >>>]
Turkey accused of turning blind eye to destruction of Christian sites
BY STEPHEN STARR The Irish Times Ancient relics of Christian past are slowly being lost to history The light of day was quickly fading as [more >>>]