Topic: Turkey

By Selcan Hacaoglu and Firat Kozok ANKARA (Bloomberg) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s campaign to secure sweeping executive authority won parliament’s approval early Saturday, January 21. Turks will have the final say[...]

ANKARA (Combined Sources) — Garo Paylan, an Armenian member of the Turkish Parliament, was suspended from parliament for three sessions by the authorities for mentioning “genocide against minorities” in a speech during a debate[...]

By Bruno Waterfield BRUSSELS (Times of London) — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey planned to purge opposition forces in the military before July’s attempted coup, according to a secret EU[...]

ZURICH (Swissinfo.ch) — With the backing of Europe’s top human rights court, a Turkish politician keeps testing Switzerland’s tolerance for freedom of speech. Dogu Perinçek, chairman of the Turkish Patriotic[...]

By Alin K. Gregorian Mirror-Spectator Staff CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A murder almost a decade ago and a genocide a century back impacted one woman so much that she altered the[...]

STOCKHOLM (News.am) — On Wednesday, December 14 made a formal judgment on the case of former Deputy Chairman of the Turkish National Association of Sweden, Barbaros Leylani, who had made several[...]

By Raffi Bedrosyan ISTANBUL — What a difference a year makes. It was August 2015 when Project Rebirth organized trips to Armenia for a large group of hidden Islamized Armenians[...]

ISTANBUL (Armenpress) —UN Special Rapporteur David Kaye met with the members of the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) in Turkey on November 15, Turkish Demokrathaber.net informs. In the meeting with[...]

By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach Special to the Mirror-Spectator BERLIN — Relations between Berlin and Ankara, already strained by the German Bundestag’s June 2 resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide, have ratcheted down since,[...]

By Edmond Y. Azadian Serving as a geopolitical bridge of NATO structure between Europe and the Middle East, Turkey improved its economy and international image to a point where Ottomanist[...]