The End of the Turkish Model
By JOE PARKINSON The Wall Street Journal Erdogan’s moderate Islamist AKP party promised reform and growth but has turned instead to consolidating power Five years [more >>>]
Month: October 2015
Azerbaijan’s Elections Reach a New Low
By TAMARA GRIGORYEVA (Emergency Assistance Program) Freedom House Azerbaijan is heading for its worst elections in recent history, but the government continues to demand that [more >>>]
Azerbaijan: an area of darkness
By NILS MUIZNIEKS* politico.eu Another fraudulent election in a land with few rights. Some 5 million Azerbaijani citizens will be called Sunday to elect 125 [more >>>]
Azerbaijan’s bizarre influence-peddling business in Washington drying up… At least on paper
TURAN News Agency contact.az Amid a sharp and prolonged oil price slump, which has been hurting petro-states since early this year, the lobbyists in the [more >>>]
Joint Open Letter to members of PACE Election Observation Mission: Legislative elections in Azerbaijan
FIDH, OMCT, Norwegian Helsinki Committee fidh.org Attn. Members of the PACE Election Observation Mission Paris-Geneva-Oslo, October 27, 2015 Re: legislative elections in Azerbaijan Dear members [more >>>]
Ahead of elections in Azerbaijan, silencing of independent and critical voices particularly regretful, says OSCE PA’s Santos
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe – Parliamentary Assembly (OSCEPA) COPENHAGEN, 27 October 2015 – The Azerbaijani government’s crackdown on independent and critical voices [more >>>]
Euro-Observers Shun Azerbaijan Election
By AFGAN MUKHTARLI* Institute for War and Peace Reporting Instead, observers from former Soviet states will applaud the ruling party’s repeat victory. International institutions including [more >>>]
Statement on Unacceptable Battery of Ilgar Mammadov in Azerbaijan
Natural Resource Governance Institute The Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) strongly condemns the severe beating of NRGI advisory council board member Ilgar Mammadov in an [more >>>]
Turkey vs. Free Press
By UZAY BULUT* Gatestone Institute “What I’m going through can face all journalists out there. They can use laws to put you in prison just [more >>>]
Turkey as a failed society
By CAN SEMERCIOGLU opendemocracy.net A different kind of reality is both constructed and deployed, which effects a huge gulf in understanding between the pro-AKP and [more >>>]