Events in Turkey show how leaders can weaken secularism, concentrate power and criminalise the opposition within a political model that still retains a democratic façade. This “normalisation” of a ...

For months, Turkey’s government has been trying to accomplish three major tasks simultaneously or nearly so to solidify its ...

During his more than two decades in power, Erdoğan has "dismantled Turkey's democratic institutions, consolidating his control into a system of one-man rule", said Foreign Affairs. He has stacked the ...

silence political dissent and increase his own power. READ ON THE FOX NEWS APP "This is a dark time for democracy in Turkey, with such a blatantly lawless move to weaponize the justice system to ...

Erdoğan has been vocal critic of Israel, another erstwhile ally of secular, democratic Turkey, even threatening it with invasion or military attack. His rhetoric and political support for ...

Turkey’s central bank has raised its key interest rate by 3.5 percentage points and halted a three‑month easing streak as it ...

The Turkish government refuses to yield from its arrest ... and the protesters give rise to the questions regarding Turkey’s adherence to its long-established democratic traditions,” said ...

Turkey’s central bank has raised its key ... which experts criticized in the past for being open to political interventions in its decision making. “There were some comments that such a ...