Angry Turkey today: “Turkey summons EU, German, Italian envoys over vessel search bid

Turkey protests over ‘unauthorised action, carried out using force,’ as Germany says search was in line with protocol.


AKP leadership does not like this:

The New York Times – Lara Jakes – Nov 22, 5:38 PM

WASHINGTON — Antony J. Blinken, a defender of global alliances and one of President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s closest foreign policy advisers, is expected to be nominated for secretary of state, a job in which he will attempt to coalesce

Scholars at Risk’s (SAR) report Free to Think 2020 includes special analysis by the Human Rights…

Human Rights Watch – Nov 18, 9:00 PM

(Istanbul) – The Turkish government should immediately release from detention Selahattin Demirtaş, former co-leader of the opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), in accordance with the 2018 judgment of the European Court of Human

Index on Censorship – Index – Nov 18, 4:22 AM

On 11 September, the peaceful silence of the early morning in Sürik, a tiny, unassuming village located in the barren yet beautiful mountains of Van, an eastern and mostly Kurdish populated province in Turkey, was broken by the sound of a


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