Gisella Ligios reports from Rojava on the threat of food and water insecurity, and its impact on farming livelihoods, in New Internationalist on January 30,...
"Protesters gathered outside Sweden's embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Monday to demonstrate against the burning of a Quran by a far-right Danish politician" reports...
"The Nation Alliance, which consists of six opposition parties in Turkey, has announced its election manifesto titled “Consensus Text of Joint Policies.” The main...
"Ankara cited recent anti-Muslim and anti-Turkish activities in Europe as reasons for the travel warning. The move comes after four European countries updated their...
"President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has rejected the claims by the opposition alliance that he cannot run in the next presidential polls since he was already elected...
"Turkish president’s comments come amid tensions with Stockholm and threaten to derail the alliance’s hopes of expanding to 32 countries" reports The Guardian on...
Turkey (Türkiye): Background and U.S. Relations In Brief
Updated January 19, 2023
U.S. relations with Turkey (Türkiye) take place within a complicated geopolitical environment and with...
"The Russian and Ukrainian human rights commissioners will meet in Turkey this week, news agencies from both countries reported on Monday, for talks likely...
"Russia laid the groundwork on Wednesday for another fight over whether the U.N. Security Council should renew approval of humanitarian aid deliveries from Turkey...
"Some 560,000 Syrian refugees in Turkey have returned to their country as part of deportation projects, many fleeing the harassment they were facing in...
TOL, Gönül. Erdogan's War: A Strongman's Struggle at Home and in Syria. Oxford University Press, 2022.
Podcast. Gönül Tol on Erdogan’s wars at home and...
SCHAFERS, Marlene. Voices That Matter. Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey. University of Chicago Press, 2022.
A fine-grained ethnography exploring the sociopolitical power...
"CIA chief warns his Russian counterpart "on the consequences of the use of nuclear weapons" during face-to-face talks in Ankara" says Al-Monitor.
US and Russian...
"Turkey's proposed "disinformation" bill threatens free speech and could further harm journalism ahead of next year's elections, a European rights watchdog's legal body said,...
"Women activists, celebrities and jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas cut their hair in solidarity with Mahsa Amini, the Iranian Kurdish woman who died in...
"Azerbaijan-Armenia tensions and the grain corridor are expected to top Erdogan’s meeting with Putin on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, where...
"With the Grand Chamber judgment in the Osman Kavala case, Turkey (or Türkiye, as President Erdoğan has decreed “the new Turkey” should be called) has painted itself into...
"American Jewish Committee CEO David Harris talks to Kathimerini about close Greece-Israel relationship, lauds trilateral with Cyprus" reports Tom Ellis.
David Harris, the CEO of...
