A government’s fear or bargaining chips — Political prisoners in Azerbaijan
By GULNUR KAZIMOVA OC Media The number of political prisoners in Azerbaijan is among the highest in Europe. This repression serves not only as a [more >>>]
Investigation Launched into Garo Paylan’s Allegations
BIA News Desk Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has launched investigation into HDP’s Paylan’s allegations that there are assassination plans against dissidents from Turkey who [more >>>]
How the Corruption Investigations of 2013 Still Shape Turkey’s Bleak Future
By MAHMUT CENGIZ* Vocal Europe It has been the four years since corruption scandals implicating President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, his family members and prominent high-level [more >>>]
Top Turkish court rejects release request by jailed pro-Kurdish leader
TURKEY PURGE Turkey’s Constitutional Court (AYM) on Thursday rejected a request for release made by Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party Co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş, who has been [more >>>]
Iconic Armenian church survives war but not plunder in Turkey
By MAHMUT BOZARSLAN* Al Monitor DIYARBAKIR, Turkey — In the 1950s, the Turkish state returned the centuries-old Surp Giragos Armenian Church in Diyarbakir to the [more >>>]
In Turkey, Repression of the Kurdish Language Is Back, With No End in Sight
By CONSTANZE LETSCH* The Nation Since 2015, scores of Kurdish media organizations, associations, language schools, and cultural institutions have been shut down. The space in [more >>>]
Turkey is getting more authoritarian. Here’s why funding nongovernmental organizations won’t help democracy.
By BILGE YABANCI* The Washington Post In early November, prominent Turkish philanthropist and civil society leader Osman Kavala was jailed based on dubious accusations of [more >>>]
Azerbaijan’s Media Strangled Whilst Last Nail Driven Into Coffin Of Internet Freedom
INSTITUTE FOR REPORTERS’ FREEDOM and SAFETY (IRFS) The Institute for Reporters’ Freedom and Safety (IRFS) condemns the Azerbaijani authorities for politically motivated judgments handed down [more >>>]
Maltese law firm confirms Erdoğan company offshore bank account
By CRAIG SHAW The Black Sea Shipping firm owned by Turkish leader’s brother-in-law opened account in Malta, a tax haven for foreign business in the [more >>>]
25 photos from Javakheti, Georgia: villages, lakes and birds
By AGNESHKA ZIELONKA JAM News Locals fish, make delicious blue cheese and paint portraits of Rustaveli on the walls The driver that agreed to give [more >>>]