Cihan Sincar clings to hope that Turkey’s bid to end a decades-old Kurdish insurgency brings the peace her lawmaker husband sought before his assassination – one of hundreds of political killings at the height of the conflict.
The Unlikely Resistance in Turkey
Unions in Turkey face the same neoliberal pressures as others throughout the world and have lost much of the momentum that they had before the 1990s. They deliver little to their membership, let alone …
‘Justice will be served’: Hundreds of thousands protest in Turkey over jailing of Erdogan rival
Hundreds of thousands of Turks protested in Istanbul on Saturday against the jailing of Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, President Tayyip Erdogan’s main rival.
Turkey Trouble: Hyannis mailman recalls run-in with bold birds
In Turkey, new technologies reinforce repression
With anti-government protests sweeping across Turkey, the authorities have used all technological means to try to curb them, from restricting internet access to using facial recognition to identify …
Foreign investors wary of Turkey despite $25bn lira intervention
Traders fear Erdoğan could fire central bank governor and finance minister who have helped stabilise country’s markets …
Foreign investors wary of Turkey despite $25bn lira intervention
Traders fear Erdoğan could fire central bank governor and finance minister who have helped stabilise country’s markets …
‘Then, the phone rang’: BBC’s Mark Lowen on being deported from Turkey
At 9.30pm, I was moved to the foreigners’ custody unit of the Istanbul police. There, the atmosphere hardened from a succession of chain-smoking officers, with whom I had to negotiate in my broken …
Swedish journalist jailed in Turkey on terrorism, insult charges
Swedish journalist Kaj Joakim Medin, who was in Turkey to cover protests against Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu’s arrest, was jailed pending trial on terrorism charges, Turkey’s Ankara Chief Public …
Why Turkey’s Pro-Democracy Protests Probably Won’t Succeed
President Erdogan is calculating he can ride out the upheaval caused by the arrest of his top rival, Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu.