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Sedat Peker’s videos have become a sensation, each one eagerly anticipated, all of them earning millions of views.

A mobster’s online confessions are shaking Erdogan’s government. Turkey is riveted. Kareem Fahim © Mustafa Kamaci/AP Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan talks following his cabinet meeting in Ankara, Turkey on May 17, ISTANBUL —The videos are set in a tidy hotel room, with props such as prayer beads and books arranged just so. Host Sedat Peker is garrulous, menacing and more than a little grandiose. His stories — about the nexus of organized crime and politics in Turkey — are earthquakes, rumbling dangerously close these days to the government of President Re...

April 20, 2021 —  Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from New Left Review — Ten years ago, Erdoğan’s Turkey was hailed in Washington as an example to the Muslim world—a free-market, pro-American Islamic democracy with high growth rates, renowned cultural monuments and beautiful beaches. ‘A model partner’, Obama affirmed in 2009, as he congratulated the leader of the Justice and Development Party (AKP). 1 Today, with perhaps 50,000 oppositionists in jail, including scores of journalists, politicians, lawyers and civil servants, Turkey is exporting ra...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Tuesday announced an 11-point human rights action plan, pledging to fortify freedoms and legal protections after years of democratic backsliding under his government.

Monday, 18 Jan 2021 04:20 PM MYT Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan addresses the nation in Istanbul, Turkey, August 21, 2020. — Murat Cetinmuhurdar/PPO handout pic via Reuters Subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates on news you need to know. ANKARA, Jan 18 — Facing a potentially hostile US administration, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is trying to break his isolation by mending EU relations, torn by what the bloc views as his bellicose foreign policy. Ties between Ankara and Brussels have plunged to a nadir not seen since Turkey formally opened talks to join th...