Europe

October 27, 2016

Why We Must Reform the European Arrest Warrant

A terrific article by Mitchell Belfer in the Parliament Magazine about why the United Kingdom must reform the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) to prevent abuses such in the case of Alexander Adamescu: Despite having not set foot in Romania for years,...
October 24, 2016

Opriţi distrugerea “României libere”!

24 Octombrie 2016 Stimate domnule Veihmeyer, Noi, jurnalişti şi editori la “România liberă”, vă adresăm acest apel public referitor la rolul firmei dvs, KPMG International, în legătură cu o serie de acţiuni represive şi ilegale, în care sunteţi pa...
October 1, 2016

Canada’s Extraordinary Naïveté toward Fethullah Gülen

The reputation of Canada as an eternally modest, earnest, and polite people is more often an illusion than a fact. Especially when it comes to diplomacy and foreign affairs, we strive to pursue our own nuanced path as compared to our Southern neig...
August 30, 2016

Turkey and Thailand: A Tale of Two Coups

There had been coups before in Turkey but none like that which transpired deep into the night of 15th July 2016. As the helicopter gunships and F16 fighter-bombers flew low over the rooftops of Ankara and Istanbul, and tanks and soldiers seized cr...
July 30, 2016

British Envoy Comments on Gülen’s Role in Coup Attempt

This weekend Hurriyet has published a very interesting interview with Richard Moore, the U.K. ambassador to Ankara, who comments on the recent attempted military coup against the elected government. Moore is emphatic that there was no intervention...
July 28, 2016

Translated Testimony of Gen. Hulusi Akar

Below is a complete English translation of the testimony given by General Chief of Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces Hulusi Akar to prosecutors. This document was originally leaked in the newspaper Hurriyet, and represents a direct link between th...
July 28, 2016

How Gülen Has Fooled the U.S.

In reading this excellent article in Hurriyet by Ezgi Başaran on Fethullah Gülen’s false image as a moderate, peace-loving visionary, I couldn’t help but sympathize with the experience described in her introduction: “Approximatel...