Kurdish ISIS preacher acquitted of all charges, resumes jihadist activity in Turkey and abroad
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A Turkish national accused of leading an Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) network operating across Turkey,...
US-designated Hamas operative reveals Erdogan personally promised protection, sees militants as his family
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A convicted senior figure in the Palestinian jihadist group Hamas who later settled in Turkey has provided rare...
Turkey’s rulers rely on sprawling prison system to suppress opposition and silence critics
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm The Turkish government’s aggressive use of imprisonment against critics, dissidents and political opponents has continued to drive the...
Exposed IRGC operative shutters Turkish aviation front as hundreds of Iranian-linked companies remain active
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Hossein Hafez Amini, a naturalized Turkish citizan originally from Iran and an alleged operative of the Islamic Revolutionary...
Turkey’s top court scaled back ISIS convictions in İzmir NATO attack case
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Turkey’s top appeals court several years ago overturned the convictions of two ISIS-linked militants on charges of attempting...
Turkish court renews arrest warrant for deceased critic in latest sign of judicial collapse
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm In yet another striking example of how extensively Turkey’s judiciary has been weaponized by the authoritarian government of...
Erdogan’s Turkey has enabled the comeback of Kurdish Islamic terrorist network
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm The government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has effectively paved the way for the resurgence of a...
US indictment exposes Turkey as key hub in covert Iranian arms pipeline to Sudan
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A newly unsealed US federal indictment has revealed how Turkey emerged as a critical financial and logistical hub...
Turkish president’s relative reveals Erdogan’s goal of resurrecting Ottoman religious authority
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A televised interview with Sadık Albayrak, an in-law of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and a longtime ideologue...
Erdogan turned Turkey’s judiciary into a weapon with help from his rivals
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Turkey’s judiciary has never been flawless, but it once maintained a meaningful degree of independence from the executive...
