Hani al-Gamal – Cairo Turkey has announced it plans to test-fire the controversial Russian-built S-400 air defense system within the next two weeks.Read More
Fifteen years ago, in his essay ‘The Dark Cloud Over Turkey’, Yaşar Kemal noted: “The people of Turkey have been kept in ignorance; newspapers have been forbidden to write about the drainage. The coup of 12 September 1980 not only forced intellectuals to keep their heads down, not only threw hundreds of people into prison […]Read More
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Democratic Kurdish Party Secretary General Cemal Şêx Baqî criticized the Kurdistan Democratic Party’s (KDP’s) military shipment to the border of Rojava. “The KDP helps Turkey’s Rojava oriented plan”, he said.Read More
Hani al-Gamal – Cairo Egypt’s independent Elections Commission, composed of a panel of judges and public figures, has stopped receiving applications for the upcoming House of Deputies elections.Read More
Meghan Bodette – USA On September 25, arrest warrants were issued for more than 80 politicians and activists in Turkey, including many current and former members of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP).Read More
Hani al-Gamal- Cairo Libyan National Army (LNA) Commander Khalifa Haftar and the Speaker of eastern Libya’s parliament Aguila Saleh paid an unannounced visit to Cairo on 22 and 23 September.Read More
Akın Olgun – London It is election season once again in Turkey. But we face an irony, stuck between the ruling power’s fear of losing and the main opposition’s fear of winning.Read More
Fréderike Geerdink On the morning of 3 December 1994, Yakut Yılmaz let himself down onto the red tiled pavement, right in front of the distribution office of daily paper Özgür Ülke in Diyarbakır. He was just informed that the offices of the paper in Ankara and Istanbul had been bombed to smithereens. He had been […]Read More
Turkey launched significant attacks after 17 June against regions in northern Iraq where the Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s (PKK’s) forces were located.Read More
