"The leaders of the main opposition CHP, İYİ Party, Future Party, DEVA Party, Felicity Party and Democrat Party have released a written statement following...
"The Islamic State leader’s hideout a stone’s throw away from Turkey's border and Syrian Democratic Forces involvement in the raid have raised fresh questions...
MARKUSSEN Hege Irene*, Derya ÖZKUL*, The Alevis in Modern Turkey and the Diaspora.: Recognition, Mobilisation and Transformation, Edinburgh University Press, 2022.
In-Depth Reports:
"Investigates the Alevis’ struggles...
"Complex ties stretch across centuries and continents, but Turkey's affinity for its ethnic kin is taking a backseat to global relations with Russia" reports...
"Rights groups are calling for Osman Kavala's immediate release, while Ankara calls the Council of Europe’s decision to start the lengthy process “malicious” and...
"Following normalization with the UAE in November, Erdogan plans to pursue reconciliation with Saudi Arabia next month, pressed by financial woes at home, as...
« Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday that Turkey and Armenia will mutually appoint special envoys to discuss steps to normalise ties, and added...
"Two British film-makers have shone a light on a campaigning lawyer and her clients in an expose of misogyny and dangerous politics" reports Vanessa...
"Le président turc Recep Tayyip Erdogan a déclaré lundi 6 décembre vouloir développer les relations d'Ankara «sans distinction» avec les pays du Golfe, avant...
Iran and Turkey are increasingly rivals in the Caucasus and in Iraq." comments Fehim Taştekin in Al-Monitor.
The reported capture of Iranian spies in Turkey...
"With twenty months left until Turkey’s legislative and presidential elections, the political debate will be fierce. The West may choose to sit it out...
The website of Observatoire de la Turquie contemporaine (IFG/Paris8 Univ.) (observatoireturquie.fr) opens a new section to accommodate articles and papers of PhD candidates and junior researchers. With this...
"The Turkish judiciary’s weakness in dealing with Islamic State suspects comes under the spotlight after a bombshell report on how a Syrian man suspected...
Turkey's unemployment rate rose to 12.0 percent in July from 10.6% a month earlier as pandemic-related labour supports expired, according to data on Friday that also showed an uptick in the under utilisation of workers.
Al-Monitor, August 25, 2021, Jared Szuba, image: Master Sgt Donald R Allen/US Air Force/AFP/Getty
Turkey has begun withdrawing its troops from Kabul airport, the Turkish...
Soner Cagaptay*. A Sultan in automn. Erdogan faces Turkey uncontainable forces, I.B. Taurus/The Washington Institute.
In-Depth Reports:
"The unprecedented economic growth and personal popularity once...
Historian and publisher, Rifat Bali issued a new book: The attempted pogrom against Turkish Jews of Thrace, June-July 1934 (Libra Kitap, Istanbul, 2021)
"In the...
Ahval, July 25, 2021
Uyghur, Turkmen and central Asian migrants living in Turkey serve as a significant pool for membership in radical Islamist terrorist organisations, according to a report presented to...
Al-Monitor, July 15, 2021, Fehim Taştekin, image: AP
Although Turkish authorities have increased security operations against Islamic State cells in the country, Ankara’s anti-IS strategy...
Guardian, June 23, 2021, Jennifer Rankin
A proposal for the EU to fund controls at Turkey’s eastern border is “really problematic” and could lead to refugees...
Reuters, June 11, 2021, Jonathan Landay
Turkey should withdraw its troops from Afghanistan under the 2020 deal for the pullout of U.S. forces, a Taliban...
Al-Monitor, Juin 8, 2021, Diego Cupolo
The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Turkey’s third largest party, faces the threat of closure once more after a...
Al-Monitor, May 26, 2021, Fehim Taştekin
A spree of rattling allegations by a Turkish mobster has brought into focus the increase in cocaine trafficking in...
