Posted on March 24, 2018. Tags: Ankara, Erdogan, Free Syrian Army, Kurdish, kurdistan, Kurds, NATO, President Trump, Syria, Trump, Turkey
By U.S. Department of State from United States [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Authors: Dr Simon A. Waldman is a Mercator-IPC fellow at the Istanbul Policy Center and a visiting research fellow at King’s College London. Engin Onuk is an intern at the İstanbul Policy Center and a masters student in the International Relations Department in İstanbul […]
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Posted in Middle East, Syria, Turkey, World
Posted on July 2, 2016. Tags: Art, Censorship, Control, Corruption, Creatives, Culture, Democracy, Erdogan, Expression, FIlm, Free Speech, Freedom, Human Rights, Istanbul, Kurds, Music, Politics, Press, Turkey
Turkey has a history of strict censorship which still remains a prominent issue in modern day Istanbul and shows no signs of stopping anytime soon. Media censorship is at an all time high with 140 press censorship cases already known in the country, newspapers have been shut down and journalists imprisoned. Now censorship is spreading to the […]
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Posted in Culture, Europe, Middle East, Political Security, Turkey, World
Posted on March 30, 2016. Tags: Censorship, Erdogan, Germany, Turkey
Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is clearly starting to believe his own (Turkish) press, which is increasingly unlikely to tell him anything he doesn’t want to hear. Foreign Policy magazine reports here on the German satire show that has got Erdogan so worked up. The video shows footage of Erdogan’s most absurd public moments, intercut with crackdowns […]
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