Turkey’s top court overturns conviction of Bosnian ISIS fighter Begzad Spahic
Abdullah Bozkurt In yet another indication that the Turkish judiciary, under the influence of Turkey’s Islamist rulers, has gone soft...
UN probes Turkish firm that delivered military equipment to Somalia without notification
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A Turkish-based maritime company in April 2021 delivered military trucks to Somalia without informing the UN about compliance...
Turkey ratchets up campaign to justify invasion of eastern Greek islands in the Aegean
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A flurry of diplomatic and military activity coupled with increasingly belligerent rhetoric from Turkish officials suggest secret planning...
UN investigates Turkish ship that had been moored near al-Shabab stronghold in Somalia
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm The UN Panel of Experts on Somalia, which monitors illegal arms, said they are looking into a Turkish...
UN report indicates al-Qaeda and ISIS enjoy safe haven in Turkish-controlled Idlib
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A recent UN report on al-Qaeda and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) shows that armed...
German NGO wants UN’s help in halting cooperation with Turkish intelligence against critics abroad
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A German nongovernmental organization in special consultative status with the United Nations called for member states to stop...
Turkey goes after foreign NGOs, bars them from attending UN event
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm After having summarily and arbitrarily shut down well over a thousand nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Turkey since 2016,...
Turkey persistently fails to clear land mines in violation of UN convention
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Turkey has for the second time asked the United Nations for an extension to clear land mines...
Turkey’s new justice minister was a suspect in illegal arms shipments to al-Qaeda
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Turkey’s new justice minister, Bekir Bozdağ, appointed by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on January 28, 2022, was...
Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly criticizes Turkey on enforced disappearances
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Europe’s largest intergovernmental body that promotes the rule...
