Monthly Archives: January 2014

This may come as a shock to you, but Turkey has never had a single successful legal case concerning a money laundering scheme with terrorist financing in its long and bloody history of battles with homegrown and regional terrorist networks, … Continue reading →

Since corruption in government of an unprecedented magnitude was exposed on Dec. 17 of last year, Turkey has been on a slippery slope sliding toward anarchy, where the rule of law does not apply to the political leadership that was … Continue reading →

Perhaps Turkey’s embattled Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has discovered the ultimate battle plan to fight those seeking to expose corruption in government. He has reverse-engineered best practices on how best to cope with corruption and started to attack each … Continue reading →

One of the points Turkey’s embattled Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan often invokes to defend himself against damaging revelations that have implicated senior members of his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government, as well as his son and prominent … Continue reading →

The massive corruption investigations that broke on Dec. 17, 2013, although they received a temporary setback with the government-orchestrated reshuffle of prosecutors and judges, exposed a major scheme by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to create a media landscape in … Continue reading →

There are worrying signs that Turkey’s beleaguered Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who faces major legal troubles originating from massive corruption investigations that implicate his son and people very close to him, has been burning bridges to save himself and … Continue reading →

We did not know that Turkey’s chief foreign policy officer and top diplomat, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, has also been wearing another hat: chief translating officer. Last night, speaking on a government mouthpiece television station, he took a jab at … Continue reading →

Embattled Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s last play before his house of cards, built around imaginary enemies at home and abroad, comes tumbling down on his government, is the lawsuits of harassment he will likely unleash, using and perhaps abusing … Continue reading →

Perhaps not many people noticed European Union Commissioner for Enlargement Stefan Füle’s interesting choice of words a week ago when he said, “I urge Turkey, as a candidate country committed to the political criteria of accession, including the application of … Continue reading →