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January 27, 2023 | John Hardie, Elaine K. Dezenski

Ukraine Must Build on Anti-Corruption Firings With Further Reform

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fired a spate of senior Ukrainian officials this week after promising to crack down on corruption amid public anger over graft scandals. With these purges, Zelenskyy seeks...

January 20, 2023 | Sinan Ciddi |

Ekrem Imamoglu Is the Best Chance for Turkish Democracy

If the opposition is interested in seeing Turkey restore democracy and the rule of law, it would do well to nominate Imamoglu as its candidate.

July 30, 2021 | Aykan Erdemir, Sude Akgundogdu

Erdogan Escalates Turkish Campaign to Disenfranchise Six Million Pro-Kurdish Voters

Disenfranchising over 6 million pro-Kurdish voters and pushing some 40,000 party members out of democratic channels will hammer the final nail in the coffin of Turkey’s struggling democracy.

June 9, 2021 | Aykan Erdemir |

Turkey’s Pro-Kurdish Opposition Party in Ankara’s Crosshairs – Again

Turkey’s chief prosecutor submitted an expanded indictment on Monday in Ankara’s second attempt within three months to ban Turkey’s third-largest party, the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party...

November 9, 2020 | Philip Kowalski, Umut Can Fidan

Erdoğan continues repression of Kurdish political and cultural rights

The year 2020 has been especially difficult for Turkey’s already embattled Kurdish population.  President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) continue to imprison Kurdish...

April 17, 2017 | Aykan Erdemir, Merve Tahiroglu

Turkey’s Inconclusive Referendum

Turkey held a historic referendum on Sunday to decide whether to grant the country’s authoritarian President Recep Tayyip Erdogan his long-standing desire to transform the government from a...

July 21, 2016 | Merve Tahiroglu |

State of Emergency Risks Undercutting Turkey’s Fragile Democracy

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared a three-month-long nationwide state of emer...

July 21, 2016 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Turkey’s Strongman Will Exploit The Failed Coup

Turkey may have thwarted a military coup d’etat on Friday night, but the result will almost certainly be the precipitous decline of Turkey’s democracy...

July 18, 2016 | Merve Tahiroglu |

Turkey’s Post-Coup Purges by the Numbers

Co-written by Yagmur Menzilcioglu A faction of the Turkish military attempted a coup d’état on Friday. Lacking support of the bulk of the armed forces, police, and...

June 24, 2016 | Aykan Erdemir |

Erdoğan’s New Assault on Turkey’s Judiciary

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım submitted to parliament a government bill on June 13 that would redesign Turkey’...

March 4, 2016 | Aykan Erdemir |

Erdogan’s War on Media Enters a New Phase

The Turkish government continued its systematic crackdown on independent media today, taking over...

March 3, 2015 | Behnam Ben Taleblu, Merve Tahiroglu FDD Policy Brief

Bursa-Bound: Ahmadinejad’s Trip to Turkey

On February 26, an Iran Air flight landed in Istanbul carrying a prominent passenger in seat 19F: former Iranian President...

December 17, 2014 | Merve Tahiroglu |

Turkey’s War on Rule of Law: One Year On

On the morning of December 17, 2013, Istanbul police launched a massive anti-corruption operation. They detained ...

July 12, 2012 | James Kirchick Foreign Affairs

Wrong Way Down the Danube

How Hungary's Democratic Backsliding Threatens Europe

August 19, 2008 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Al Qaeda suicide attack hits police center in Algeria

An al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb suicide car bomber killed 43 Algerians and wounded more than 45 in an attack on a police acad...

May 8, 2008 |

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb: An Evolving Challenge in the War on Terror


Last Thursday an airstrike on the Somali town of Dhusamareb, 300 miles north of Mogadishu (see
W. Thomas Smith, Jr.'s report in Human Events), dispatched Adan Hashi ‘Ayro, the commander of al-Shabaab ("the youth"), the terrorist organization spearheading the bloody Islamist insurgency in the Horn of Africa, and several of his cohorts to the custody of the nineteen angels stoking the stone-fueled fires of hell (Qur'an 74:30, 66:6). The territory of the onetime Somali Democratic Republic is, however, only one front in the war on terror's African theater. Another is the vast expanse of the Sahara Desert and the Sahel, areas which are likely to play an increasingly significant role in the overall struggle against extremism.