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September 5, 2024 | Sinan Ciddi, Sophia Epley

U.S. Marines in Turkey Assaulted by Nationalist Youth Group

Two U.S. Marines in Turkey were assaulted on Monday by more than a dozen members of the Turkish Youth Union (TYU), a secular nationalist youth group opposed to U.S. and European Union influence in the...

April 4, 2024 | Steven A. Cook, Sinan Ciddi

Post-Erdogan Turkey Is Finally Here

Last weekend’s elections offer a first glimpse of a political future beyond the reigning strongman.

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.

July 17, 2020 | Aykan Erdemir, Philip Kowalski

Turkey’s Bar Associations Become the Latest Target of Erdogan’s Iran-Inspired “Reform”

The Turkish parliament passed a controversial law on July 11 to allow the creation of multiple bar associations in each of Turkey’s 81 provinces, amending the existing system that stipulates only one...

April 16, 2018 | Aykan Erdemir, Eric S. Edelman

Turkey’s president is holding Americans hostage. Why aren’t we doing anything about it?

On April 16, an American pastor unjustly detained in a Turkish prison for 18 months will&n...

March 13, 2018 | Aykan Erdemir

Turkish Prosecutor Seeks Life Sentence for U.S. Pastor

A Turkish prosecutor today demanded a life sentence for U.S. Pastor Andrew Brunson on charges of &...

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...

August 29, 2016 | |

U.S., NATO Should Develop Contingency Plans to Move Military Bases Out of Turkey, FDD Report Finds

Washington, D.C., August 29, 2016 -- Amidst a recent spike in anti-American sentiment in Turkey since the failed coup d'etat in July, and owing to myriad foreign policy disagreemen...

June 30, 2016 | Merve Tahiroglu |

Istanbul Attack Must Prompt Tougher Turkish IS Policy

Three suicide bombers attacked the Istanbul Ataturk international airport Tuesday night, killing 43 people, including...

May 23, 2007 | Clifford D. May |

The Turkish Model

Why aren’t more moderate Muslims protesting against Islamism? Actually, hundreds of thousands have been doing exactly that -- marching in the streets of Turkey’s major cities to insis...

May 23, 2007 | |

El Modelo Turco

¿Por qué no hay más musulmanes moderados protestando contra el islamismo? En realidad, cientos de miles lo han estado haciendo – desfilando por las calles de las princi...