As bad as it gets… “Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality Co-Mayors Kışınak and Anlı in Custody”

Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality co-Mayors Gültan Kışınak and Fırat Anlı have been taken into custody.

Reuters – Oct 25, 3:58 PM

ANKARA Turkish police on Tuesday detained the co-mayors of the mainly Kurdish southeast’s biggest city, part of a government crackdown after more than a year of militant violence in the region, security sources said. Gultan Kisanak, a former

BBC – Oct 23

Syrian refugee children have been making clothes for British shoppers, an undercover BBC investigation has found. Panorama investigated factories in Turkey and found children had been working on clothes for Marks and Spencer and the online retailer…

foreignpolicy.com – May 29, 2014, 5:16 PM

In the past few weeks, a conflict between Ankara and Baghdad over Turkey’s role in the liberation of Mosul has precipitated an alarming burst of Turkish irredentism. On two separate occasions, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized the Treaty of


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