The Turkish government has hired an international law firm to investigate the worldwide activities of the government’s friend-turned-foe U.S.-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen’s Hizmet (Service) Movement.
Turkey published a list of its most wanted terrorists on Oct. 28, including Islamic Scholar Fethullah Gülen, leaders of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
Turkey’s voters to pass judgement on larger-than-life president amid fears for …
National Post
The tragicomic soccer fiasco was part of “a broadly based problem of people engaging in lawlessness and thinking the government will back them,” said Ilter Turan. a political scientist at Istanbul’s Bilgi University. “The soccer chief was not happy …
Turkey election: Young voters want peace and influenceBBC News
MHP: Nationalist wild card in Turkey’s election raceYahoo News
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National Post
The tragicomic soccer fiasco was part of “a broadly based problem of people engaging in lawlessness and thinking the government will back them,” said Ilter Turan. a political scientist at Istanbul’s Bilgi University. “The soccer chief was not happy …
Turkey election: Young voters want peace and influenceBBC News
MHP: Nationalist wild card in Turkey’s election raceYahoo News
Crackdown on Turkish media ahead of crucial electionThe National
Financial Times
all 603 news articles »
An ongoing tussle between President Erdoğan and HDP co-chair has reached Washington after the former suggested that a company that once managed U.S. President Obama’s campaign has now been hired by HDP
Only five months since the last general election failed to produce a single-party government, Turkish voters return to polling stations on Nov. 1, with slim prospects of a substantial difference raising the stakes for all parties
A district mayor in the Central Anatolian province of Eskişehir has apologized for lines reading “We steal for the future,” mistakenly printed on bags distributed to students that should have read “We work for the future.”
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has declared his presidential palace a “symbol” of the Turkish Republic, which marks its 92nd anniversary on Oct. 29
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