‘We Want Freedom’: Detained Migrants Protest Deportations To Turkey

Turkey is ready to take another 200 migrants deported from the Greek islands on Wednesday, a senior government official said, as it presses ahead with a disputed EU deal aimed at shutting down the main route for illegal migration into Europe. A first group of 202 migrants, mostly Pakistani and Afghan, were shipped back to […]

Russia Accuses Turkey as the Primary Supplier of ISIS

Russia has accused Turkey of using three humanitarian organizations to funnel weapons and supplies to IS and other jihadist groups in Syria. Moscow also called for Turkey close the porous border to extremists. Russia’s UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin on Friday sent a letter to the UN Security Council saying three Turkish humanitarian organizations were fronts […]

Watch: “This is America!” Secret Service Rebukes Turkish Security

https://youtu.be/JxYnovcQjww This is the incredible moment a secret service agent was filmed scolding one of the Turkish president’s bodyguards after clashes with protesters and reporters in Washington D.C. on Thursday. Turkey’s leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan was in the capital for this week’s nuclear summit with other world leaders when scuffles broke out outside the Brookings Institution. Bystanders […]

Turkey Has Forcibly Returned Thousands of Refugees to Syria, Amnesty International Says

 Turkey’s government has forced thousands of Syrian refugees to return to their war-torn country in recent months, exposing the perils of an agreement that allows Greece to send refugees arriving by boat back to Turkey, Amnesty International said in a report issued Friday. Amnesty, a human rights group that has its headquarters in London, said it had collected witness […]

Pentagon orders military families out of Turkey due to ISIS threat

The U.S. military has ordered military family members to evacuate southern Turkey, primarily from Incirlik Air Base, due to security concerns, the Pentagon said Tuesday. Family members will also be evacuated from facilities in Izmir and Mugla, according to a Pentagon statement. “The decision to move our families and civilians was made in consultation with […]

E.U. deal to stop migrants puts fear in those waiting in Turkey

 The once great wave of refugees motoring in cheap rubber rafts across the Aegean Sea from Turkey to the Greek islands has suddenly become a ripple. Where thousands arrived in a day, now hundreds — and some days far fewer — splash onto the Greek shores from Turkey, a possible sign that the largest mass […]

Kurdish Militants And Turkey’s New Urban Insurgency

Turkey is experiencing a wave of terror violence, linked to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). These two non-state actors are also at war inside Syria, where the PKK’s Syrian affiliate, the PYD, is currently waging an effective offensive to take territory from ISIL in northern […]

PKK In Iraq Struck By Turkish Warplanes

Editor’s Note: The PKK is classified as a terrorist organization by the European Union, the United States, and of course Turkey. Since the PKK claimed responsibility for two car-bombings in Ankara, Turkey that killed nearly seventy people. Not surprising the Turkish government would take action, as it has hundreds of times in the past–on both […]

Large explosion in Turkey killed 27 and wounded 75

An explosion killed at least 27 people and wounded 75 others on Sunday in the Turkish capital of Ankara, according to the Associated Press, which cited the Ankara governor’s office. The blast originated from an “explosive-laden vehicle,” according to the Ankara governor’s office, and Turkish broadcaster TRT reported a car exploded near a bus stop. […]

Regional threats prompt Turkey to boost defense spending by billions

Turkey’s defense committee has approved billions of dollars in additional defense spending, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said Wednesday. Much of the spending would go toward domestic military production at a time the country has seen growing regional threats, Defense News reported. “Today we approved $5.9 billion worth of new defense projects. Around $4.5 billion worth of these projects will consist […]