Turkish expats in Singapore concerned over state of emergency back home
Some members of the Turkish community here are worried about reprisal after the July 15 failed military coup in Turkey. These people are followers of the Gulen movement, named after Muslim cleric...
View ArticleAfter coup, Turkish activist afraid to return home
Mehmet Okumus used to go home to Turkey once a year to visit his family. Now he says he can't go home out of fear he'll be labeled a traitor. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has been going after...
View ArticleTurkey's Judicial Purge Threatens the Rule of Law
Noah Feldman In the wake of the coup attempt, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan can hardly be blamed for purging the military. But firing 2,745 judges without any investigation or demonstrated...
View ArticleThe lethal and bitter aftermath of Turkey's failed coup
Aengus Collins* Because the attempted July 15 coup in Turkey failed within a day, there is a temptation to gloss over it and focus solely on the huge purge that has followed it. This would be a...
View ArticleFethullah Gulen on 'GPS': Failed Turkey coup looked 'like a Hollywood movie'
Fethullah Gulen, the reclusive cleric accused by Turkey of hatching a military coup attempt, concedes that his supporters could have been involved in the putsch but again denied any direct...
View ArticleA Coup of Erdogan, for Erdogan, by Erdogan?
In the lightning-flash of one week, Turkey has been reborn as a strange and unexpected distortion of its former self. So much has been turned upside down that news channels must decide daily which...
View ArticleBrutal purge shatters illusions of democracy
The crackdown in Turkey following the coup bid raises more questions than answers, writes Aydin Inal. Turkey is no stranger to military intervention and has lived through dark days following coups....
View ArticleMedia as victim of a failed coup
The July 15 failed coup in Turkey got the government frantically moving against many perceived threats to its existence, including the mass media; 131 media organizations have been shut following the...
View ArticleWhy does the West love the Gülen movement so much?
Tuncay Kardaş and Ali Balci In an article for the New York Times, the man behind the recent coup attempt in Turkey, Fethullah Gülen, wrote the following: “At a time when Western democracies are...
View ArticleHow Erdogan blackmailed the U.S. over Islamic State
Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is blackmailing the United States by threatening to withdraw his country’s support for the international coalition against the Islamic State, on grounds that the...
View ArticleTurkey’s post-coup crackdown moves overseas
The night after coup plotters put tanks on the streets of Istanbul and Ankara, Turkish doctors almost 5,000 km away in Somalia were preparing for a late shift at Deva Hospital as normal. The hospital,...
View ArticleKyrgyz President Atambayev: Ankara should not threaten us with coup
If someone wants to help Kyrgyzstan, this help should be unconditional, the President of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev said. Kyrgyzstan is a sovereign country, any assistance should be provided without...
View ArticleKazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan Reject Turkish Calls to Close Gülen Schools
With the Turkish government asking countries around the world to shutter schools linked to Fethullah Gülen’s movement, governments on the receiving end of such requests have to measure several...
View ArticleGulen Denies Involvement: Erdogan Using Coup for Repression
The Muslim cleric being blamed by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for masterminding a bloody coup attempt says "ultranationalists" were behind the plot in a "scenario" that looked "more like a...
View ArticleTurkey’s Real Coup Has Begun
The Turkish military’s coup attempt has now failed. Whether or not the conspiracy theories dominant among secular Turks and followers of Fethullah Gülen are true, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is on...
View ArticleTurkish colleges respond to Turkey’s request to close 17 schools in Nigeria
The Nigerian Turkish International Colleges have described the call by the Turkish Ambassador to Nigeria, Hakan Cakil, for the closure of 17 ‘Turkish’ schools in Nigeria as “a spurious request.” In a...
View ArticleParents of Nigerian-Turkish International College students decry call to...
The Parents Teachers Association of the Nigerian-Turkish International Colleges (NTIC), has called on the Nigerian Government to disregard any request for the closure of the schools in the country. The...
View ArticleIs Nigeria now a part of Turkey?
These are indeed interesting times in Nigeria. The Turkish Ambassador to Nigeria Mr. Hakan Cakil is the Prime Minister of the Turkish Nigerian republic. Yes, he is for he recently called on the...
View ArticleGreater Jakarta: Students, parents protest Turkish Embassy’s statement
Students and parents at the Turkish-affiliated Pribadi Bilingual boarding school in Depok, West Java, have filed objections over a recent statement from the Turkish Embassy in Jakarta that referred to...
View ArticleKyrgyzstan President finds Turkish gov’t’s coup plot claims absurd
Kyrgyzstan President Almazbek Atambayev has said that he finds Turkish government’s claims that the Gülen movement — a civil initiative accused of being behind the failed coup attempt in Turkey – might...
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