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A French-language interview with Said Nursi published in 1908 sheds light on the Kurdish Islamic scholar’s early political thinking, showing him defending constitutional government, equality regardless of religion and the expansion of education throughout Kurdistan.

The interview appeared in Le Journal de Salonique, a French-language newspaper published in ...

On May 20, News About Turkey (NAT) argued that the new Kurdish process unfolding in Turkey was about considerably more than ending the armed campaign of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). The more consequential p...

Turkey’s economic growth slowed to its weakest annual pace in six years in the second quarter of 2026, while newly released cost-of-living figures showed that millions of households are facing basic food expenses substantially above the country’s minimum wage.

Gross domestic product expanded 2.3 percent year-on-year in the April-June period, slowing from a revised 2...

The British economist immediately withdrew Erdoğan’s name after invoking an era of “sociopathic leaders.” His subsequent explanation was that it was simply a slip of the tongue. But Ash’s long record on Turkey — deeply attached to the country, often admiring of its achievements and close to figures in its business and defence establishment while simultaneously cri...

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan rose to power promising to liberate Turkey’s religious conservatives from state tutelage. More than two decades later, the destruction of the Gülen movement, the operations against the Süleymancılar and Furkan, the imprisonment of Erdoğan’s strongest secular opponent and the judicial takeover of the CHP suggest a darker conclusion: Erdoğan did...