Eurasia Press & News
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s online address to students on June 26 was the latest sign that his efforts to shape Turkey’s young generation in his image have failed. Thousands of students joining the YouTube livestream disliked the video and used the comments section to criticize Erdogan and tell him …
Read More »Ex-paratrooper who fought Isil claims Turkey put pressure on Britain to charge him with terror offences
Daniel Burke was accused of terrorism offences after volunteering to help the Kurdish YPG fight against Isil in Syria.
Read More »President Erdogan declares Hagia Sophia a mosque after Turkish court ruling
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan declared Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia a mosque on Friday hours after a top court ruled the ancient building’s conversion to a museum by modern Turkey’s founding statesman was illegal.
Read More »Turkey arrests 42 over links to terror group PKK, including former HDP mayors
Forty-two people, including former mayors of the pro-PKK Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), were detained for their suspected links to the PKK, a designated terrorist group that has waged a decadeslong insurgency against Turkey.
Read More »Idlib to Tripoli: Turkey moves to dominate eastern Mediterranean
The first time Wael Amr got on a plane was not quite what he had hoped for. Air travel in films led him to imagine how glamorous it would be to leave Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province for an exotic holiday abroad.
Read More »Pro-Kurdish Party Starts ‘Justice March’ in Turkey
The People’s Democratic Party has launched what it calls a march for ‘justice and democracy’ in response to President Erdogan’s growing crackdown on his critics.
Read More »Turkey’s Plans for Hagia Sophia Strain Greek Relations
Plans to convert the famous 6th-century building in Istanbul back into a mosque, after being a museum since 1935, have further tested relations with Greece – already damaged by over other regional and international disputes.
Read More »Terrorism won't be Turkey's fate, Interior Minister Soylu says
Terrorism will soon no longer be a problem in Turkey, as the country has successfully destroyed a large number of them, Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said, noting that the number of terrorists has been rapidly falling.
Read More »Turkish jets strike Kurdish PKK positions close to refugee camps in Iraq
Jets from Turkey carried out cross-border airstrikes on Monday targeting the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), the Turkish Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, announced Turkish authorities.
Read More »Turkey’s PKK Conflict: A Visual Explainer
Context: Turkey’s conflict with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) – recognised as a terrorist organisation by Turkey, the U.S. and the EU – continues in south-eastern Turkey and northern Iraq. In northern Syria, Ankara and the PKK’s Syrian affiliate, the People’s Protection Forces (YPG), remain pitted against each other. On …
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