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Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm

The father-in-law of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s younger son has quietly built a nationwide civilian network that resembles a de facto paramilitary structure designed to mobilize loyalists in support of the government during periods of political unrest, according to internal communications, organizational records...


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Levent Kenez/Stockholm

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan this week delivered one of his strongest warnings on Cyprus in recent months, telling lawmakers that any attempt to undermine the rights of Turkey or the Turkish Cypriots in the eastern Mediterranean would draw a “very clear” and “very harsh” response.

The remarks came after a series ...


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Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm

A leaked Turkish government document obtained by Nordic Monitor reveals that Turkish intelligence operatives conducted surveillance activities in France to collect information on a group critical of the Islamist government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The document, prepared by two officials identified only by the...


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Levent Kenez/Stockholm

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Tuesday ruled that Turkey violated the rights of veteran Kurdish politicians Gültan Kışanak and Sebahat Tuncel by detaining them on terrorism-related accusations in 2016, but the significance of the judgment extended beyond the findings themselves.

Both women were subsequently ...


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Levent Kenez/Stockholm

The Turkish government has postponed parliamentary action on a controversial maritime jurisdiction bill associated with the country’s “Blue Homeland” doctrine, delaying a measure that could intensify disputes with Greece and Cyprus while avoiding a potentially divisive debate ahead of next month’s NATO summit in Ankara.

Th...


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