Turkey

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been clamping down methodically on the media in Turkey for years, first as prime minister and now as president. The persecution of journalists across the political spectrum is growing in ferocity and includes arrests, threats and…

The latest developments at a local and international level to address the refugee crisis in a successful way have triggered many concerns in those who are actively involved with the issue and also in civil society. Refugees and migrants travelling…

 The threat to European interests in the Middle East comes not from Russia, but from Turkey and Saudi Arabia, says French Middle East expert Roland Lombardi. Ankara in particular has a great deal to lose, and in its desperation might…

Prominent US scholar Noam Chomsky has accused Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of having double standards on terrorism after Erdoğan accused him of ignorance and sympathizing with terrorists. Hours after a bombing attack in Turkey’s largest city of Istanbul that…

A few months ago, an unprecedented “humanitarian auction” was opened in Brussels at the European Commission, shortly after watching the image of the three-year old Syrian child that the sea threw up on the Turkish shores. The “auction” was about…

Journalists in Turkey have staged a protest rally in the capital, Ankara, to denounce the arrest and detention of two prominent editors. Protesters marking the Working Journalists’ Day on Sunday held banners and chanted slogans during the demonstration in support…

Source: RT Human Wrongs Watch 7 January 2016 (RT)* – Turkey’s black market economy is benefiting from the mass influx of Syrian refugees into the country, with a recent raid on life jacket manufacturing facility revealing the exploitation of a child workforce…

War with Russia or with ISIS: What ever happened to peace? By David Swanson http://davidswanson.org/node/4994 According to the Nation magazine and many others, there are two options available to the U.S. government. One is increased hostility perhaps leading to nuclear…

Ankara, Nov 27 (Prensa Latina) Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu called to reduce tensions between his country and Russia, after the downing of a Russian aircraft in Syria, although he said that “the measures to defend our territory will remain…

IPPNW Vice-President Dr. Angelika Claussen reports from Turkey. With elections approaching, a 15-member delegation including politicians, journalists, doctors, human rights campaigners and trade-union officials from Germany, Austria and the Netherlands visited the cities Diyarbarkir, Cizre, Nusaybin, Silvan and Mardin in…