Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan hinted that his government may shut down Facebook and YouTube after March 30 local elections to what he says avert negative effects of internet on society, a move would likely spark public backlash given ...
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Turkey’s prime minister has said tapes purporting to be conversations with his son over money are a ‘shameless montage’ Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday voice recordings purportedly of him telling his son to dispose of large sums ...
Read More »– OPEN LETTER – Internet Censorship in Turkey
The right to use the internet in Turkey is under imminent and major danger. With a new law just adopted, the Turkish Government has tightened its suffocating grip on the Internet, further curtailing the freedom of expression, the freedom of ...
Read More »Boeing Delivers 1st Spy Plane To Turkey; Faces Penalties
After several years of delays, Boeing has delivered an airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft to Turkey but faces penalties now being negotiated with the Turkish government. The aircraft, the first of a batch of four, has arrived at ...
Read More »Turkey signs law ‘criminalizing’ medical first aid without govt permit
A medical bill has been signed into law in Turkey that requires doctors to obtain government permission before administering emergency first aid. Critics have blasted the bill as a crackdown on doctors who treat activists injured during protests. The bill, ...
Read More »Turkey to mull proposals for military re-trial
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government is considering legal arrangements that could lead to the re-trial of hundreds of military officers and other people who were convicted of plotting to topple the government, the head of Turkey’s bar association ...
Read More »Turkey’s Economic Vulnerability Exposed as Graft Divides
Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan entered the last week of 2013 reeling from a corruption probe that has splintered his party and highlighted economic vulnerabilities as investors unload the nation’s risk. Erdogan took the defense of his administration to ...
Read More »Turkey PM faces resignation call as three ministers quit in corruption scandal
The crisis engulfing the Turkish government of prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed its first major scalps yesterday when three ministers caught up in a corruption scandal resigned. The ministers of the interior, the economy and the environment all denied ...
Read More »European court: Denying Armenian ‘genocide’ is no crime
STRASBOURG, France – Denying that mass killings of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey in 1915 were genocide is not a criminal offense, the European Court of Justice ruled on Tuesday in a case involving Switzerland. The court, which upholds the 47-nation ...
Read More »U.S. Charter School of Influential, Turkish Islamist Raided by FBI
The school is part of the charter school network of Fethullah Gulen, a powerful Turkish Islamist who resides in Pennsylvania. The FBI raided a Turkish-run charter school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana yesterday. No information has been given to the public ...
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