Looks like all spied on Turkey but Turkish leadership can only be aggressive towards domestic opposition…

How the NSA Helped Turkey Kill Kurdish Rebels

On a December night in 2011, a terrible thing happened on Mount Cudi, near the Turkish-Iraqi border. One side described it as a massacre; the other called it an accident.

Turkey is one of the US’ leading targets for spying, German weekly magazine Der Spiegel has reported
Turkey’s top government officials will be absent at the opening of the judicial year, in protest at the speech of the Union of Bar Associations head
SPIEGEL ONLINE – Aug 31 – On a December night in 2011, a terrible thing happened on Mount Cudi, near the Turkish-Iraqi border. One side described it as a massacre; the other called it an accident. Several Turkish F-16 fighter jets bombed a caravan of villagers that night

Turkey’s Imperial Fantasy

nytimes.com – Behlul Ozkan – Aug 28– Istanbul — In the late 1990s, as Turkey was reeling from various political and economic crises, there was a nationwide debate over European Union membership and whether Turkish accession to the union would solve the country’s problems. Back

Erdogan’s Turkey
Where does Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Turkey rank in terms of global competitiveness?

Turkish elections could shift president’s role
Washington Times
If there is a war or something,” said Ilter Turan, a professor at Istanbul’sBilgi University. “It is not one in which the president calls a session and says: Let’s build a bridge. That’s not the idea.” Presidents take an oath to remain neutral when 
Divisive Erdogan favorite in Turkey president vote
EU urges Erdogan to adopt inclusive approach
Recep Tayyip Erdogan the favourite to win Turkey’s first presidential election
Number of Yazidi refugees in Turkey swells to 16,000: official
The number of refugees from Iraq’s Yazidi religious minority who have fled to Turkey from the advance of jihadists has risen to 16,000 and may rise further, a top provincial official was quoted as saying Saturday. The number marks a sharp rise from the figures of several thousand previously given and shows Turkey is dealing with another major influx of refugees as it gives sanctuary to some 1.2


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