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
‘Sherlock Holmes of Armenian Genocide’ Uncovers Lost Evidence
A small stream flowing into the Dudan cave in Turkey. It was here that the Armenian residents of a local village are said to have been...
Genocide Watch
Apr 22, 2017
Battle Over 2 Films Reflects Turkey’s Quest to Control a Bitter History
By Cara Buckley If history was any guide, the director Terry George figured there’d be weirdness around his new film, “The Promise,”...
New York Times 1
Apr 20, 2017
Turkey in Turmoil and Chaos Since Purge Aimed at Dissenters
A sign in Istanbul asks for yes votes on Sunday in a referendum that would expand the powers of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey,...
New York Times 1
Apr 12, 2017
Chios: Syrian refugee critical after 'self-immolation'
More than 60,000 refugees are stranded across Greece [File: Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters] CHICOS, Greece— A Syrian refugee is in critical...
Al Jazeera
Mar 31, 2017
Turkey Is a Dictatorship Masquerading as a NATO Democracy
By Elliot Ackerman In the lead-up to Turkey’s constitutional referendum on April 16, Selahattin Demirtas, the co-chair of the...
Foreign Policy
Mar 29, 2017
It is President Erdogan's Turkey, not humane Germany, that is guilty of 'Nazi practices'
There was something especially obscene about Turkish president Erdogan’s comparison of Angela Merkel’s Germany with the Nazis. “Nazi...
The Independent
Mar 22, 2017
Turkey shuts down a U.S. aid group that helped Syrians
A displaced Syrian family unload their belongings at a makeshift camp for displaced people near the town of Manbij, Syria. (Delil...
Washington Post
Mar 7, 2017
