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What hope for Turkish journalism when we can’t even scrutinise the tourism minister?
It's been an awful month: a broadcaster closed after 26 days, a newspaper editor jailed for 27 years, and a reporter held for 24 hours without charge
The struggle for Meral
Polls suggest Meral Akşener’s İYİ party is now Turkey’s third largest. Little wonder the others are trying to court her
Disney’s hold over the future of Turkish journalism
The fate of Turkey's only independent-minded broadcaster rests with the company that brought us Mickey Mouse
The Muharrem İnce Party that no one is asking for
The former presidential candidate's conduct came short on election night 2018 — and the CHP has now moved on to someone better
The injustice wrought on Kurdish mayors
Turkey's most successful Kurdish party is fighting to survive after 50 of its 65 elected mayors were unseated by government order
How Erdoğan continues to struggle with Atatürk’s legacy
There is still plenty of rancour about the decisions Turkey's first president put into motion when he opened parliament a century ago
A century later, Turkey is set to return to North Africa
Turkey's plan to join the fighting in Libya is a military risk and a public opinion gamble
Yaşar Büyükanıt, the last Turkish general to threaten a coup
The former Turkish chief of the general staff will always be remembered as the man who threatened the AK Party — and helped it swell
For the Good of Turkish people
Meral Akşener’s tweets are genuinely witty but, despite what she says, she is not the much-awaited successor to Erdoğan
Can Ali Babacan’s movement dent the AK Party behemoth?
The former deputy prime minister has interesting plans, but needs to attract far more prominent figures besides himself