s hold on power but the country's hard-won reputation as a modern society. The idea that, behind the facade of apparently normal institutions, shadowy forces are at work, contesting one another and undermining the proper process of government, is part of politics in many places. But this is especially so in Turkey where, since Ottoman times, conspiracies and secret or semi-secret networks, real or...
s army felt compelled on Friday to deny that it would get involved in a burgeoning political crisis that has blown up as a result of a top-level corruption investigation reaching up into the highest echelons of power. In its first public statement on the scandal, which involves sons of ministers and is edging ever closer to the prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Turkish military declared that...
s military has released a statement saying it will not be dragged into politics amid a deepening corruption scandal that has engulfed the prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The leader has been forced to reshuffle his cabinet after the resignation of three ministers, whose sons were detained as part of an investigation. The military's statement on Friday came after one of Erdoğan's advisers raised...
s government weathered a storm of allegations of corruption and cronyism. Three ministers have resigned after learning their sons were among dozens of people detained on 17 December amid an investigation into corrupt procurement practices, which has exposed Turkey's deep institutional divisions and left the premier facing a crisis that could prove the most formidable in his 11 years in power. Erdogan...
s escalating corruption scandal. One of them, environment minister Erdogan Bayraktar, urged prime minister Tayyip Erdogan to follow suit. However, a defiant Erdogan, who has held power for 11 years, announced a cabinet reshuffle, appointing 10 new ministers to replace the three who quit and others planning mayoral runs in local elections in March. The resignations add to a week-old crisis which has...
s Gezi Park protests vows to seek justice It was a Monday night in early June. Protesters will remember it as the night they celebrated the occupation of Istanbul's central Taksim Square and the adjacent Gezi Park after a weekend of clashes with the police in what was arguably the largest wave of protests in recent Turkish history. But Hakan Yaman, neither a protester nor a political activist, remembers...
s war. Then came the white police vans and the Syrian men, women and children were gone. "Ever since we have lost all trace of them," said Vasillis Papadopoulos, a lawyer who defends the rights of migrants and refugees. "They just disappeared. Our firm belief is that they were pushed back into Turkey." Activists, lawyers, human rights groups, opposition MPs, immigration experts and international officials...
re free – Natsvlishvili was so desperate that he jumped at it. And then he was told he could not appeal. That is why we are here, says the lawyer to the judges behind the bench at the European court of human rights: this man has plainly been denied the right to a fair trial. Georgia of course denies it, but it is in breach of article 6, paragraph 1 of the European convention on human rights. Along...
sons and bank chief accused of taking or arranging bribes as inquiry into graft targets PM's circle Sixteen people, including the sons of two ministers, have been charged in connection with a sweeping corruption investigation targeting allies of the prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Suleyman Aslan, the general manager of state-owned Halkbank, was also formally arrested and charged alongside Baris...
sons as anti-government plot Eight people detained for questioning this week as part of a massive corruption investigation targeting allies of the prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, have been formally arrested, the state-run news agency reported. The inquiry has also drawn in sons of three government ministers and comes amid a power struggle between Erdogan's government and an influential US-based...
Transparency report reveals Turkey with most removal queries and United States second with requests for more than 4,000 items to be deleted from web Dominic Rushe ...