Salam Aldeen has been helping refugees on the Greek island of Lesvos since 2015.He left his home in Denmark on 5th September of that year, his birthday, but more significantly than that – two days after he first saw pictures in the news of a young Syrian boy … Read more →
Turkey
Turkey occupies a unique geographic position, lying partly in Asia and partly in Europe and serving as both a bridge and a barrier between them.
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How many journalists are behind bars in Turkey?
Speaking to BBC’s Hardtalk on 17 December 2018, Prof. Gulnur Aybet, a senior advisor to the President of Turkey, Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, refuted Stephen Sackur’s question about Turkey being the worst jailer of journalists in the world, on the grounds that she has checked the numbers given by various organisations, including Amnesty … Read more →
Erdoğan’s Thugs Plot to Kill Turkish Journalist in Denmark
A plot to kill a critical Turkish journalist living in Denmark by a clandestine group tied to the Turkish government exposes the sheer hypocrisy of the autocratic regime of president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has been driving a political campaign to exploit the outrageous murder of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul. Hasan Cücük … Read more →
Where was the Outrage when more Babies were Jailed in Turkey this Year?
With the crackdown on the innocent in Turkey showing no signs of letting up, the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has continued to imprison babies and their mothers, the tally of which was confirmed by the country’s top prison official as … Read more →