April 2018

Last month, the Turkish government abducted six Turkish nationals in Kosovo. They have already been put in jail in Turkey, and they are at severe risk of being tortured. Since 2014, Turkish…

Last month or so, Turkey’s Central Bank saw its net international reserves dropped %20. The lira was in a freefall against the dollar, and nobody is sure when it would recover its strength…

Yasemin, 30, is a teacher of Turkish literature at a private high school in the upscale Bahcesehir neighborhood of Istanbul. As part of the school curriculum, she has to talk about Turkish…

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Wednesday announcement of snap election to elect the next president and Parliament on June 24 has sparked mixed reaction across wide segments of the…

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Turkey would hold early presidential and parliamentary elections on June 24, after his party positively responded to the proposal by a…

A senior U.S. official has warned Turkey that it would face sanctions over the purchase of Russian S-400 air defense system, and it would also be excluded from the U.S.-led F-35 program.…

European Union has called on Turkey to immediately lift the state of emergency without a delay and urged Ankara to address the gross human rights violations that took place during the same…

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Turkey will hold early presidential and parliamentary elections on June 24 this summer, after his party positively responded to the…

A day after a Turkish court ruled to keep American Pastor Andrew Brunson in jail, U.S. President Donald J. Trump called Brunson "a fine gentleman and Christian leader," and dismissed…

Political hate speech has been translated into serious hate crimes in Turkey in recent years. Inspired and motivated by the ongoing political hate discourse, a research assistant in…