Monthly Archives: December 2016

The unprecedented crackdown on lawyers who defend critics, dissidents and opponents of the authoritarian regime of Turkey’s strongman, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, paint a dismal picture of how the criminal justice system has been turned into an instrument of oppression at … Continue reading →

As part of a nurturing campaign to raise an ideologically committed, new generation of religious zealots by Turkey’s Islamist rulers led by autocratic president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, radical groups have for some been infiltrating the nation’s main law enforcement agency, … Continue reading →

More details have emerged on the secretive past of the killer of the Russian ambassador to Turkey, shedding further light on how he was radicalized by a network close to the first family under the permissive and even encouraging political … Continue reading →

The autocratic regime in Turkey of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has not only broken an all-time world record in the number of journalists it has jailed, which now exceeds 150, but in the speed with which it moved to scapegoat … Continue reading →

A refusal to let up on UN bashing by Turkey’s autocratic president in an unprecedented and vicious campaign of discrediting the world body is mainly motivated by his growing fear of being dragged into the global spotlight and held accountable … Continue reading →

The combination of both the deliberately ratcheted-up, vitriolic anti-Western diatribe by Turkey’s Islamist rulers and a surge in xenophobic incidents on the ground suggests that the storming of a foreign embassy in Ankara or consulate compound in Istanbul by thugs … Continue reading →

While Turkey has quickly climbed to the top of the chart as the worst violator of rights in Europe under its autocratic Islamist leader, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Council of Europe, a 47-member body that champions rights, the rule of … Continue reading →

The deliberate outing of an intelligence asset by the Turkish government, done to shift the blame to NATO allies UK and Canada, is one of many indicators showing how Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) has worked with militants of the … Continue reading →

No doubt that Turkey’s Schindler’s List today involves members of the Gülen movement who have done nothing wrong other than volunteering their time, money and expertise to improve the lives of people around themselves with a special focus on science … Continue reading →

The plain, simple and bitter truth is that Turkey’s Islamist rulers have supported and maintained parallel networks in Europe; thrown political, diplomatic and financial support to front NGOs whose role is to promote hatred; and run a campaign of intimidation … Continue reading →