The dominant assessment in NATO is clear: Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan staged the coup against himself. By Kjetil Stormark / kjetil@aldrimer.no Senior NATO sources tell aldrimer.no that they believe Erdoğan staged the coup himself. However, they stress that there… Read More ›
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Vast Purge in Turkey as Thousands Are Detained in Post-Coup Backlash
ISTANBUL — The Turkish government’s crackdown after a military coup attempt widened into a sweeping purge on Monday, cutting a swath through the security services and reaching deeply into the government bureaucracy and political and business classes. The sheer numbers… Read More ›
Turkey’s leftists, Kurds celebrate Syriza victory
By Cengiz Çandar Late at night on Jan. 25, more than 500,000 Twitter followers of Selahattin Demirtas, the co-chairman of the pro-Kurdish People’s Democracy Party (HDP) in Turkey, were dumbfounded by seeing him tweet in the Greek Cyrillic alphabet, which… Read More ›