Opinion

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…

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…

Kosovo has suddenly found itself at the center of international attention when its police arrested and handed six Turkish people to Turkey's spy agency. Five teachers and one doctor from…

The sale of an entire media group by Turkish press mogul Aydin Dogan has had reverberations across Turkey's media landscape, with ominous implications for the mainstream media. Mr. Dogan…

The arrest and detention of the two Greek soldiers that have mistakenly entered Turkish soil on March 1 have been testing the bilateral relations of the two NATO allies, making an already…

Turkey’s democracy is on trial once again. It went unnoticed by the majority of Western media that the leaders of the second largest opposition party, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP),…

On Feb. 24, the U.N. Security Council unanimously agreed upon a resolution calling for a 30-day ceasefire in Syria without delay. During a daily department press briefing on Feb. 27, U.S.…

After several days of postponement, the U.N. Security Council finally voted for a 30 days’ ceasefire in Syria. The vote comes after more than a week of horrific bombardments of east Ghouta.…

A self-declared state recognized only by Turkey, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) spans the northern third of the largest island in the Eastern Mediterranean. Condemned by the…

Hardly do I ever point out a dismal state of the Turkish opposition and the media, because the government, in my opinion, is a bigger threat to freedoms in Turkey. Yet I couldn't help but…