Criminality
Barcelona Reveals How Policies Designed to Engineer a Separate National Agenda Have Instead Produced a Geostrategic Vulnerability
The Case Points to a Deeper Pattern of Cooperation Between Elements of Turkey’s Defense Sector and Iranian Procurement Networks
Dozens of Churches Are Destroyed by Fire Every Year, While Other Places of Worship Enjoy an Inexplicable Immunity
A 20-Year Foreign-Income Tax Exemption Could Deepen Turkey’s Exposure to Money Laundering, Sanctions Evasion, and Organized Crime
Under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Iranian Networks Exploit Turkish Corporate, Industrial, and Financial Sectors to Circumvent International Sanctions
Organized Crime Syndicates Ranging from Drug Trafficking Networks to Racketeering Groups Have Operate with Near-Total Impunity in Turkey
Hayrettin Demircan Was Formally Designated a Suspect by Public Prosecutors Investigating Clandestine Iranian Intelligence Activities on Turkish Soil as Part of a Terrorism Probe
When Turkish Networks Move Money, Weapons, People and Narcotics Across Borders, They Export Not Only Violence but Also the Institutional Weaknesses and Culture of Impunity
The Sweeping Indictment Alleges That a Turkish Construction Contractor and a Senior NATO Official Operated a Covert Bribery and Fraud Scheme for Nearly a Decade
Drug Trafficking in Turkey Operates in a Permissive Atmosphere Nurtured over Two Decades by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Ruling Justice and Development Party
The Sum Is Enough National Wealth to More than Triple Libya’s Combined Spending on Both Healthcare and Education
The Implications for American Interests Are Concrete, Even If the Language of Policy Prefers Discretion
An Affidavit Filed in Virginia Revealed an Alleged International Crime Network Using Turkey as a Central Hub for Laundering Stolen Euros and Operating a Human Smuggling Route to the U.S.
U.S. Top Court’s Halkbank Ruling Could Spell Trouble for Turkey’s Erdoğan over Iran Sanctions Scheme
At the Heart of the Dispute Lies an Allegation That Halkbank Played a Central Role in an Elaborate Financial Network Designed to Help Iran Evade U.S. Sanctions
Loud Chanting of ‘From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be Free’ and Other Slogans Advocating the Destruction of Israel Were a Constant Accompaniment to the Events at the Square
The Judiciary Is Caught Between Enforcing the Law, Managing Diplomatic Sensitivities, and Confronting the Limitations of Statutes That Often Classify Espionage as a Minor Offense
Over the Last Four Years, Well over 118 Churches Have Been Vandalized, Torched, or Desecrated in the ‘Great North’
Why Did Turkish Authorities Wait More than Two Years to Act, Even as Other European Regulators Flagged the Company as Fraudulent?
Italy Trapped in Extradition of Notorious Turkish Mobster as Judges Assess Torture Risks in Turkey
The Case Reveals a Web of Traffickers Who for Years Used Turkey as a Strategic Hub to Channel Heroin Into European Markets via Russia and the Balkans