Topic: Turkey
ANKARA — Garo Paylan, a member of the Turkish Parliament who represents a district of Istanbul, and is in the HDP party, this week presented a bill to parliament in[...]
By Amberin Zaman ISTANBUL (Al Monitor) — “I am firmly convinced that this is the greatest crime of the ages.” These were the words that Henry Morgenthau, American ambassador to the[...]
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Rudaw) — The recommendation by Turkey’s Council of Ministers for an extension of a state of emergency on Monday, April 17, should be reversed by its government or[...]
BERLIN — The “Yes” vote in the Turkish referendum may turn out to be a Pyrrhic victory for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Not only was the reported margin in favor[...]
BERLIN — The news that the Turkish intelligence agency MIT was not only spying on German citizens in their home country, but had requested help in this pursuit from the[...]
BELMONT, Mass. — Dr. Bilgin Ayata, assistant professor in political sociology, University of Basel, will give a lecture titled “Quo Vadis Turkey? The Constitutional Referendum and Political Transformation in Turkey,” on[...]
ISTANBUL (Armenpress) — The Locum Tenens of the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem, is scheduled to arrive in Istanbul on April 2, Istanbul’s Armenian Jamanak daily reports. Earlier Bekjian had said before[...]
ISTANBUL (ARA News) — The pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) has complained that there is a media embargo on the party by the Turkish media with a limited number of[...]
BERLIN (AFP) — A German state minister on Tuesday, March 28, accused Turkey of “unacceptable” spying on alleged followers of exiled preacher Fethullah Gulen, whom President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blames[...]
ISTANBUL (Agos) — The Clerical Assembly of the Armenian Patriarchate of Istanbul elected Archbishop Karekin Bekjian, Primate of the German Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church as Locum Tenens —a[...]