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Things are going from bad to worse in Turkey. Why – and where will it end?
Turkey’s political factions, hardly friends at the best of times, are more divided and mutually suspicious than ever.
Unrest has spread to Istanbul where the US consulate has been attacked.
Whatever the pretext, Turkey’s latest push against the Kurds will do nobody any favours.
The rise of the pro-Kurdish HDP has brought fresh hope to those seeking a peaceful resolution to a decades-long dispute.
The June 7 elections were no doubt one of the most critical in modern Turkish history.
Ruling AKP gets a hammering at the polls as pro-Kurdish HDP enters parliament for first time.
With plans to shake up democracy, it’s no wonder the HDP is being compared to Syriza and Podemos.
Want to know who’s who and what’s what? Look no further.
Turkey’s president is meant to be a non-partisan, ceremonial figure – but Recep Erdogan is openly asking voters to hand him more power.
A new security law working its way through Turkey’s parliament could radically reduce police impunity.
Less than a month since Barack Obama went to the American public with his strategy for defeating the Islamic State (IS), expectations of a successful outcome are already being significantly lowered. This…
Turkey’s prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has swept to a landslide victory in the country’s first direct presidential election. His win follows three terms as the country’s prime minister and he has…
Turkey awaits a fateful election on August 10. The electorate will be heading back to the polls to elect, for the first time in the country’s Republican history, the president by popular vote. If no candidate…
Turkey’s presidential elections mark a crucial moment for the country, not only because it is the first time that a president will be elected directly by the people, but the future of the country’s political…
One of the worst mining tragedies in Turkish history, the explosion at the Soma coal mine has taken at least 282 lives and many more miners remain unaccounted for. I come from a town 13kms away from the…
In the deadliest coal mine disaster in Turkish history, the tragedy seems to tear this already polarised society even further apart. It has already been confirmed that more than 200 workers have been killed…
The Turkish people went to the polls at the weekend against a backdrop of some of the most serious unrest the country has seen in living memory. The local elections, in which the ruling AKP (Justice and…
Eight years ago, Twitter became a free and open resource to all who had access. Since then we have connected across devices and geographies in ways that have awakened a new type of social interaction…
In an extraordinary move Turkey has banned Twitter, blocking access to the social networking site that has more than 10m users in the country. The ban has come just hours after the prime minister, Recep…



















