TURKEY

ISTANBUL — In a recent article, ‘Bad news’ for Turkey’s marginalized Christians, Politico Magazine confirmed the growing sense of marginalization and persecution among Turkey’s Christians, who feeling increasingly threatened by the spread of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s hybrid Nationalist–Islamism. To Demetrios Ioannou, who penned the article, the re-conversion of…

ANAKARA — The former Prime Minister of Turkey and head of the Future Party, Ahmet Davutoğlu,  accused Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his son-in-law, Minister of Finance and Treasury Berat Albayrak, of being responsible for the deterioration of the value of the Turkish Lira, indicating that the duty of…

This article was originally published by Voice of America on 5 August 2020. The original article can be found here. By Namo Abdulla WASHINGTON — The U.S. designation last week of a new Turkey-based member of the notorious Rawi Network for allegedly facilitating money transfers to the Islamic State (IS) in…

This article was originally published by Stars and Stripes on 5 August 2020. The original article can be found here. By John Vandiver Turkey continues to be a regional transit hub for the Islamic State group, even though the NATO ally has recently stepped up efforts to counter attempts to smuggle…

The European Post (4 August 2020) – A video showing a group of men posing with the Taliban flag inside the mosque went viral on social media. Afghans unfurled Taliban banner inside Hagia Sophia a few days after it was converted into a mosque. The video shows men, some of them…

This article was originally published by The Pappas Post on 4 August 2020. The original article can be found here. By Gregory Pappas Dr. Elizabeth Prodromou, a global expert on geopolitics and religion, has raised alarm bells over the potential signing of a memorandum of understanding between the government of Turkey…

This article was originally published by The Economist on 3 November 2012. The original article can be found here. MIDYAT, TURKEY – WHEN the Young Turks enlisted Kurdish tribesmen to take part in the mass slaughter of the Armenians in 1915, Muslim clerics spurred on their flocks: those who slew…

ANKARA / BAKU — Yesterday, several Turkish F-16 jet fighters arrived in Azerbaijan to participate in joint Turkish–Azerbaijani ground and air maneuvers, according to the Turkish Anatolia News Agency. In a move that may further fuel tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, Turkish F-16 jet fighter…

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that hundreds of Turkish-funded Syrian mercenaries recently arrived in Libyan territory to support the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord (GNA). A number of jihadists of unknown nationalities were supposedly among the mercenaries. Approximately 6,000 fighters have returned to Syrian territory after the…

A Yezidi family have managed to free their daughter from captivity in Turkey after paying her captors a ransom. The daughter, Zozan, was kidnapped from the Yezidi heartland of Shengal in Iraq by the Islamic State (ISIS) in 2014. Zozan was recently discovered to be in Turkey with her captor…