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3 days ago

Swedish journalist sentenced in Turkey for ‘insulting Erdoğan’

Joakim Medin given suspended sentence over photos on his articles, but remains in jail awaiting trial on terror charge

A Turkish court has handed a Swedish journalist an 11-month suspended sentence fo…

10 days ago

20 days ago

Erdoğan lambasts Israel for undermining stability in Syria

Turkey’s president lashes out shortly after talks with Netanyahu’s government aimed at defusing tensions

The Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has lambasted Israel for undermining stability in ne…

23 days ago

34 days ago

Turkey’s young ‘hope of millions’ held in jail as Erdoğan cracks down on protests

Popular student demonstrator Berkay Gezgin, 21, snatched off street by police outside office of detained Istanbul mayor

When 21-year-old Berkay Gezgin left the interior of Istanbul city hall, a squad …

36 days ago

Erdoğan, not Trump, is Europe’s new best friend on security

Ekrem İmamoğlu, Istanbul’s mayor and the main political rival of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has been arrested. So what is Europe doing about it? Staying pretty quiet, it seems. Mass prot…

I’ve never seen such clampdowns in Istanbul. Turkey’s democracy is fighting for its life | Orhan Pamuk

The jailing of President Erdoğan’s main political rival is the low point of a decade-long march towards autocracy – but the protesters aren’t done yet either

• Orhan Pamuk won the 2006 Nobel prize in …

37 days ago

The Guardian view on Turkey’s protests: a rejection of Erdoğan’s autocracy | Editorial

The arrest of Istanbul’s mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu, was a turning point for those already angered at political repression and a cost of living crisis

The tens of thousands who have taken to Turkey’s stre…

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