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Seyit Tümtürk, a Turkish-born Uyghur political leader living in Kayseri, Turkey, has been among the most outspoken critics of Turkey's developing relations with China. This report will review some of his recent criticism of the deepening relationship between China and Turkey, as well as a recent diplomatic row over the Uyghur issue between the Chinese Embassy in Ankara and members of the Turkish opposition leadership. Turkish-Born Uyghur Leader Seyit Tümtürk On Turkish-Chinese Relations: "This Is Dipping Your Bread In Your Brothers' Blood" Seyit Tümtürk has been organizing events[11] t...

Ultra-nationalist football fans in Istanbul Foto: SEDAT SUNA / EPA-EFE Turkish mafia boss Alaattin Çakıcı has spent decades terrorizing rivals and those holding different political views than his own. As one of the leading figures of a right-wing extremist group called the Grey Wolves, which has focused its ire in the past on leftists, Kurds and Alawites, Çakıcı is thought to be responsible for at least 41 political murders. In 2004, a court sentenced him to 19 years in prison, in part for having his ex-wife murdered in front of their son. A lot of people breathed a sigh of relief wh...

The margin of victory [by the opposition candidate Ekrem İmamoglu in the 2019 Istanbul mayoral election] shocked Erdoğan and his party establishment. That night marked an unforgettable defeat for the invincible Erdoğan. It also marked a new, advanced phase in Islamists' war on Kurds. Erdoğan advocates more subtle ways to intimidate opposition. He has been jailing HDP's democratically elected leaders, MPs and mayors, and appointing trustees in their place. Erdoğan does not have to shut down the HDP when he has de facto crippled it. The party's two co-chairmen, Selahattin Demirtaş and Fi...

Last modified on Thu 25 Feb 2021 00.10 EST At first glance, the photograph of two smartly dressed older Turkish men, posing for the camera in an office filled with flags, could be of any important figures in the country – but it is rare for a picture to say so much about both the past and the future. On the left is Devlet Bahçeli, an ultranationalist political dinosaur who has in the past few years become an influential coalition partner in the government of Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The man on the right, Alaattin Çakıcı, is the most notorious mobster in Turkey. Accus...

EFF has been tracking the Turkish government’s crackdown on tech platforms and its continuing efforts to force them to comply with draconian rules on content control and access to users’ data. As of now, the Turkish government has now managed to coerce Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok into appointing...