Secret blacklist bars Erdogan’s critics from notary services at home and abroad
Abdullah Bozkurt / Stockholm A secret blacklist maintained by the Turkish Union of Notaries (Türkiye Noterler Birliği, TNB) has been...
Turkey’s intelligence agency expands as budget surges and power grows
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm In mounting evidence that Turkey’s Islamist leadership is increasingly governing through its intelligence apparatus, the budget of the...
Turkey’s state sponsorship of terrorism registered in US judicial documents
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm In a US federal terrorism case, Turkey was publicly named as the sponsor of an al-Qaeda–linked militant group...
Libya-linked POS money-laundering case in Turkey leaves key actors untouched
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Forced to launch an investigation into a money-laundering ring tied to Libya under mounting international pressure, Turkish authorities...
Smuggling conviction in US sheds light on expanding migrant pipeline run by Turkish networks
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A Turkish man who pleaded guilty to alien smuggling in a US federal court has exposed the growing...
Turkey held liable for exporting political violence to US soil, court rules
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A US federal judge has found Turkey liable for a violent 2017 attack carried out by President Recep...
UN clash on Libya maritime lines reveals persistent tensions between Egypt and Turkey
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Despite a publicly promoted thaw between Ankara and Cairo in recent years, accompanied by high-level diplomatic visits and...
Europe confronts a new menace: Turkish gangs born from Ankara’s institutional breakdown
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm The systematic dismantling of Turkey’s law enforcement agencies, intelligence services and judiciary over the past decade — carried...
A secret Turkish Embassy unit in The Hague orchestrates intelligence operations across Europe
Abdullah Bozkurt / Stockholm The Turkish government has established and operated a clandestine intelligence cell inside its embassy in The...
Turkish husband of American ‘ISIS empress’ worked for Turkey’s intelligence agency MIT
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A Turkish jihadist who facilitated his radicalized American wife’s militant journey from Libya to Syria through Turkey, a...
