Turkey’s Erdogan came to Washington, and things got a bit crazy
By ISHAAN THAROOR* The Washington Post Visiting Washington this week to attend the Nuclear Security Summit, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived at the Brookings [more >>>]
Month: March 2016
Surreptitious expropriation in Sur
By UYGAR GÜLTEKIN AGOS The expropriation decision made by the cabinet in Sur province of Diyarbakir caused disquiet. Stating that the cabinet should correct this [more >>>]
Aliyev’s Toys, or the Treatment of Political Prisoners in Azerbaijan
By ARZU GEYBULLAYEVA Global Voices Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev likes expensive things: grandiose construction projects, dear-to-host sporting competitions and the odd glitzy Eurovision program. But [more >>>]
Azerbaijan frees 14 jailed dissidents. The rest remain locked up.
The Economist An oil-rich autocracy tries to polish its image ahead of a Washington summit THE amnesty that Ilham Aliyev, Azerbaijan’s authoritarian president, declared for [more >>>]
Explaining Azerbaijan’s Surprise Prisoner Amnesty
By AFGAN MUKHTARLI* Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) Move interpreted as an attempt to deflect international criticism of Baku’s´s poor human rights record. [more >>>]
Gold Trader at Heart of Turkey Graft Scandal Charged in U.S.
By PATRICIA HURTADO, BENJAMIN HARVEY, ISOBEL FINKEL Bloomberg Reza Zarrab, a gold trader at the center of a bribery scandal that engulfed Turkey’s leadership more [more >>>]
Russia Hopes Upcoming Geneva Talks on South Caucasus to Be Constructive
Sputnik News Moscow hopes that the participants of the Geneva discussions on Syrian reconciliation, including the Georgian delegation, will hold the upcoming meeting in a [more >>>]
David Kramer: “No high level meetings should take place with President Aliyev”
By A. RAUFOGLU contact.az David Kramer, former president of Freedom House, urges the US Administration to refrain from high level meetings with President Ilham Aliyev [more >>>]
Political prisoners released in Azerbaijan
By SPORTS FOR RIGHTS indexoncensorship.org We, the undersigned members of the Sport for Rights coalition, express our relief over the release of 15 political prisoners [more >>>]
The Reality of Turkey’s Pakistanization
By A. KADIR YILDIRIM The World Post (huffingtonpost.com) The Turkish capital, Ankara, is rocked with bombs yet again. The details of the attack on March [more >>>]