by CBBSS | Mar 31, 2021 | International News and Analysis
Turkey’s media crackdown spread all the way to Washington, D.C. on Thursday, the Atlantic reports. Erdogan’s security detail assaulted journalists and protesters outside the Brookings Institution where Erdogan was speaking. Read original...
by CBBSS | Mar 31, 2021 | Regional News
The PKK carried out a car bombing in Turkey’s southeastern Kurdish region Thursday, killing seven police officers and injuring 27 people, Hurriyet Daily News reports. Read original...
by CBBSS | Mar 31, 2021 | Regional News
The UN court in the Hague acquitted Serbian ultranationalist Vojislav Seselj of all the war crimes charges he faced, Balkan Insight reports. Seselj was accused of murder, persecution and expulsions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia. Seselj has been in...
by CBBSS | Mar 31, 2021 | Regional News
The Times of London cites the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights in reporting that Turkish border guards are shooting refugees as they flee war in Syria. Border guards reportedly killed 16 migrants, including three children, as they crossed into Turkey over the last...
by CBBSS | Mar 30, 2021 | International News and Analysis
Jonathan Schanzer, a former terrorism finance analyst for the U.S. Treasury Department, writes a column in the New York Times’ opinion page debate: “Does Turkey still belong in NATO?” Schanzer argues it’s getting harder and harder to justify...