Turkey LGBT: Police stifle Istanbul Gay Pride rally
Police in the Turkish city of Istanbul have thwarted attempts by organisers to hold a banned Gay Pride march. The organisers of the...
BBC News
Jun 25, 2017
Iran and Turkey, at war with Syria
Two traditional foes, Turkey and Iran, have found themselves on the same side of a bitter regional dispute between Saudi Arabia and...
Newsweek
Jun 21, 2017
17 journalists to be tried in Istanbul for “complicity” in coup attempt
The trial of 17 Turkish journalists accused of complicity in a coup attempt in July 2016 will open in Istanbul on 19 June. Six of them,...
Reporters without Borders 1
Jun 16, 2017
25 years for leaking video to Turkish newspaper
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the 25-year jail term that an opposition parliamentarian has received for leaking a highly...
Reporters without Borders 1
Jun 16, 2017
Concern over detained French photographer now on hunger strike
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is extremely concerned about Mathias Depardon, a French photographer held for the past two weeks in...
Reporters without Borders 1
May 24, 2017
First jail sentence in Kurdish newspaper solidarity trials
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is alarmed to see that the Turkish authorities are stepping up their persecution of those who took part...
Reporters without Borders 1
May 22, 2017
Living proof: Surviving a massacre
Some deny a genocide ever occurred in Srebrenica. One survivor continues to live there to provide testimony of what happened....
BBC News
May 5, 2017
Managing Turkey’s PKK Conflict: The Case of Nusaybin
Executive Summary Nusaybin, a political stronghold of the Kurdish movement bordering Syria, is among Turkey’s urban south-eastern...
International Crisis Group 1
May 2, 2017
New Balkan Turbulence Challenges Europe
The trouble in the Balkans today is not Russian meddling, though there is some of that, but a special case of the malaise afflicting...
International Crisis Group 1
Apr 28, 2017
Turkey deports foreigners working with Syrian refugees
The Turkish government this week deported foreigners working with Syrian refugees at a leading U.S.-based aid organization, part of what...
Washington Post
Apr 26, 2017
Refugee boat sinks between Greece and Turkey, 16 drown
At least 16 people, including two children, have drowned when an inflatable boat sank in the eastern Aegean Sea between Greece and...
Al Jazeera
Apr 26, 2017
Over 1,000 Police Officers Are Detained in Raids in Turkey
Officers suspected of supporting the American-based cleric Fethullah Gulen were escorted to the police headquarters in Kayseri, Turkey,...
New York Times 1
Apr 26, 2017
