EU quiet as Erdogan jails dozens of journalists
Journalists, pensioners, and financial analysts are being rounded up in Turkey. But EU and US criticism of the post-coup crackdown is getting softer. News from EUobserver
View ArticleTop Turkey MEP urges talks with Erdogan on accession
Dutch MEP Kati Piri called on Turkey’s pre-accession funds to be redirected to Turkish civil society, journalists, and those who share the EU’s values. News from EUobserver
View ArticleHow Recep Tayyip Erdogan seduces Turkish migrants in Europe
EUROPE’S relations with Turkey have long been coloured by mutual fascination, dependence and mistrust. Spellbound after visiting Constantinople in 1898, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany wrote to his friend...
View ArticleA challenge to Turkey’s Erdogan
TO STEP into the ring with Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s bruiser of a president, takes courage and self-belief. Meral Aksener has plenty of both. At the launch of her new political party on October...
View ArticleA court case in New York rattles Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan
A FEDERAL court in New York is not the obvious setting for a trial that has sent panic through the Turkish establishment. But since he began testifying on November 29th, Reza Zarrab, a 34-year-old gold...
View ArticleTurkey’s opposition scents success against Erdogan
VICTORY for Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development (AK) party in presidential and parliamentary elections on June 24th should have been a foregone conclusion. The strongman...
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