Yes, a lot of Turkish citizens are looking for a chance to start new lives abroad – but not all of them are doing it for the same reasons.
Supporters of the Turkish government policy of making suspects wear uniforms wave banners in August 2017 saying ‘terrorists in single uniform’.
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Experts agree that Turkey is even further polarised after contested unofficial results show President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has won the right to expand his powers.
President Donald Trump speaks at a conference for law enforcement.
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The Trump administration may do well to make a friend of the federal bureaucracy it’s so intent on gutting, according to an expert who studies the role of civil servants in government.
Bashar al-Assad, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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Unexpected calls to prayer from mosques in Turkey caught many off guard on the night of the attempted coup. An ethnomusicologist explains the political and social power of sound.
What will the economic legacy of the coup and response be?
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Quick measures by the central bank prevented a financial crisis, but investors are worried. Longer-term economic effects will depend on how long Erdogan’s purge goes on.
Why did Turkey’s government go after academics soon after the coup?
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A scholar who grew up in Turkey explains the important role Turkey’s academics play and why, following the recent coup, the government went after them.
The EU can’t be too tough on Erdogan as it relies on his nation’s pipelines and shipping routes.
Following the failed coup in Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ordered the sacking of nearly 1,600 deans, 21,000 teachers and 15,000 education bureaucrats.
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Emergency laws can sometimes be the biggest threat to a state and its people.
Street protests in Turkey are denouncing the ‘traitors’, but the government has offered little solid evidence against those it accuses of plotting a coup.
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