In the last five years, the majority of Turkish society has embraced anti-western discourses probably at the deepest level since NATO membership in 1952.
If Turkey can hang on to the remaining threads of its democracy and the fractured political opposition can organise itself effectively, it might not bode well for the future of president Erdogan and his ruling party.
The mission that “revolutionary guards” took upon themselves in the aftermath of the putsch was to radically transform Turkey’s social, political and institutional landscape. How are they doing?
An Interview with the Migration Monitoring Association (GÖÇİZDER) that illuminates the invisible aspects of the war and uncovers what happened through women’s eyes.
In this highly isolated Central Asian state, “Turkish schools” guaranteed good education and a relationship with the outside world. But now, they’re the target of attention and repression from the authorities.
We are an international network of artists who came together through Salzburg Global Seminar’s program “Conflict Transformation through Culture: Peace-Building and the Arts” in 2014.
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Exactly one hundred years to the day – the story of a British Scots-Irish family who learnt to love Turkey, of two rosaries and of a silver Koran. Bianet Turkish. Cumhuriyet.
"To say what is being done to him is wicked is not enough. Its consequences signal the potential implosion of a vast and beautiful country symbiotically joined to the Middle East, the Caucasus, Europe and Russia."
A couple of months ago, a local court judge in Edirne filed a plea to the Court of Constitution of Turkey to revoke the compulsory sterilization requirement for the recognition of transgender people.
