Erdogan Articles

Can is an educated, middle-class professional, living in a European country, who has, by any reasonable interpretation of the word, had a successful career. He is a nice guy, an intelligent and articulate man with a loving family, great friends and unusually...

Prior to this year's failed coup, Turkey’s most recent coup took place in 1997 and was known as a postmodern or ‘soft’ coup. There was no military presence on the streets or in the air, yet the Turkish army put enough pressure was on the coalition government to cause...

Two years ago, in the build-up to the country’s presidential elections, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke of creating a ‘New Turkey’, founded upon a new constitution. He promised to strengthen democracy, resolve the Kurdish issue and work towards ensuring Turkey’s accession...

It’s all gone quiet in Turkey. Actually, it hasn’t – only in the western media. After what were largely peaceful, legitimate protests, first there was the crackdown in early June, when protesters were violently ejected from Taksim Square, which resulted in four deaths...