As Berlin reconsiders its controversial secularism policy, Europe continues to debate the limits of religious expression in ...

Media rights activist Baris Altintas tells BIRN that Joakim Medin’s arrest on charges of terrorism and insulting the ...

This month marked a grim milestone for Sudan, the unfortunate African country suffering what is considered the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. The next day, the State Department for the first time ...

Europe’s security requires cooperation with Turkey, but Erdogan’s domestic abuses complicate the relationship. To navigate ...

The arrests put Turkey on the path that Russia has traveled over the past two decades, in which a democratically elected ...

It likely won't lead to the violence and humiliation of other botched departures, including from the same region in 2019 ...

If Americans don’t recognize the warning signs, the U.S. could follow the same dangerous path as Turkey: sliding into ...

Similarly, dozens of MPs from the pro-Kurdish DEM Party (formerly HDP), as well as one MP from the TIP/Workers’ Party of Turkey (where our comrades from the Fourth International are active) are still ...

Tonge is convincing in his conclusion that the religious orders are a permanent feature of Turkish politics and public life.

At least in the capital, Damascus, the Christian holiday festivities were protected and joyfully observed. Religious ...

Military alliances are built on shared interests, not values.

While Erdoğan consolidates power at home and prepares to project it abroad, he has set the stage for a clash with Israel. Indeed, Turkey has quickly emerged as perhaps the greatest danger to the ...