The 15 July failed coup attempt in Turkey has its place within the Turkish people’s minds as one of the most catastrophic days for the country, with some even defining it as an ‘apocalypse’ There [ More … ]
Millions of people have begun marking the first year anniversary of the July 15, 2016, failed coup attempt in all 81 provinces, with people in Istanbul gathering on July 15 Martyrs Bridge, where President Recep Tayyip [ More … ]
The Turkish people put up a unique fight against coup-plotters to protect their democracy and motherland following a historic call from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan last July 15, the ambassadors of Afghanistan and Pakistan told Anadolu [ More … ]
By Galip Dalay* How Ankara Came to Embrace a Policy of Selective Engagement The question of what drives Turkish foreign policy is fraught with controversy. During Ahmet Davutoglu’s premiership, experts depicted Ankara as being driven [ More … ]
– Turkey is acting in accordance with international human rights conventions in its measures against the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told European parliamentarians Wednesday, according to Anadolu Agency. Speaking at [ More … ]
Turkey has shut down a television station for allegedly “spreading terrorist propaganda” after the country extended the state of emergency declared following a failed coup d’etat last summer. Turkish authorities also suspended nearly 13,000 police [ More … ]
As the number of dismissals from Turkey’s military ranks grows after the failed coup last month, we can try to get a clearer picture of who and what will be left when the purge ends. [ More … ]
By: BERIL DEDEOĞLU* Since the failed coup attempt, Western media has been discussing Turkey’s NATO membership. We do not know why or because of whom this debate started; because nobody in Turkey has hinted that [ More … ]
By: Dr. Said al-Haj* As in many of the files, it is expected that the moment of the failed coup attempt in Turkey will be a turning point in the Turkish foreign policy on several [ More … ]
By: Dr. Basheer Mousa Nafi* – While the Turkish Prime Minister and other senior leaders of the armed forces were standing, according to tradition, in front of the tomb of the founder of the Republic [ More … ]
By: Merve Şebnem* – The democracy advocate, the U.S., waited on the night of July 15 to see who would win. In the emergency message, the U.S.’s Ankara Embassy published addressing its citizens, it described [ More … ]
– Decision follows President Erdogan’s recent withdrawal of all lawsuits filed for insults against him – Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim dropped 1,500 lawsuits against opposition party members, journalists, and writers charged with insulting him or [ More … ]
Egypt would possibly be the new residence for the ‘parallel state’ organization (FETO) of Fetullah Gulen, the one responsible for the failed coup attempt in Turkey last July, through receiving the remnants of the organization [ More … ]
By: Beril Dedeoğlu* It has been two seeks since the failed coup attempt, yet Western media outlets do not seem to understand what is happening in Turkey. Rather than trying to understand what the coup [ More … ]
The Turkish embassy in Amman has welcomed the closure of a school in Jordan that is affiliated to Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen whom Turkey has accused of being behind the July 15 foiled coup attempt, [ More … ]
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