Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Topic: Turkey

Turkey arrests 33 people suspected of spying for Israel

Turkey has reportedly detained 33 people suspected of spying on behalf of Israel. The authorities are still searching for 13 other people believed to have...

Netanyahu no different than Hitler, says Turkey’s Erdogan

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has compared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Adolf Hitler, likening Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza to Nazi Germany’s mass killing of Jews.

Turkish press collective publishes a tribute to journalists martyred in Palestine 

To bring attention and recognition to the martyrdom of about 100 journalists Israel has killed in Gaza, Press For Palestine, a Turkish organisation aiding Palestinian journalists, published a single-copy newspaper in Istanbul.

Israel is a terrorist state, says Turkey’s Erdogan

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called Israel a “terror state” that is committing war crimes and violating international law in Gaza.

“Hamas is not a terrorist group, but a group of fighters, defending homeland,” says Turkey’s Erdogan

In his address to parliament on Wednesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called Palestinian resistance group Hamas as “liberators” who are fighting to “protect their lands and people.”

From voting to victory: A visual essay on the Turkish elections

As a political anthropologist, I have observed and written about theories and practices of democracy across the continents – Australia, Europe, India, the USA and beyond. It is this very interest, which took me to a polling booth during the second round of the 2023 Turkish Presidential elections for which the voting took place on Sunday, 29 May.