On 23 February 2016, Stanley Weiss published an article in the Huffington Post in which he claimed that Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan “has spent the past 13 years dismantling every part of Turkish society that made it democratic and replaced secular schools with Islamic-focused madrassas [traditional Islamic schools].”1
The Economist published a news article on 20 February 2016 in which it was claimed that Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is “single-mindedly pursuing a constitutional change that would extend the powers of his presidency”.1
Russian news portal Sputnik claimed that the Turkish government has an “an ambitious anti-Kurdish initiative” and has been implementing “anti-Kurdish policies” as part of “a so-called antiterrorist operation” while
On 24 November 2015, an analysis titled Is Turkey’s ‘open door policy’ an illusion? was published on the Al Jazeera website. By giving voice to experts and witnesses, the article argued, as the title already suggests, that Turkey only pretended to implement the open door policy for refugees fleeing Syria.
On 17 February 2016, the Jerusalem Post, an Israeli broadsheet newspaper, published an interview with Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, which is an Iranian-backed Shiite militant group and political party based in Lebanon.
On 7 February 2016, Iran’s state-owned English language broadcaster Press TV relayed allegations made by Russia’s Defense Ministry that Turkey is purchasing oil from the DAESH terrorist group at the end of an article about Turkey’s refugee policies.1 The allegations stem from information released on 2 December 2015 by the Russian Defense Ministry, which released a number of maps, pictures and videos claiming t
On 2 February 2016, Al-Monitor’s Kadri Gursel published an article about the ongoing conflict between the Turkish Armed Forces and the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) terrorist group in which he claimed that “the battle is not being waged to solve the Kurdish issue; it is being waged to gain a presidential system.”1
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