Turkey is holding presidential and parliamentary elections on 24 June under a national state of emergency. It was imposed after a failed military coup against President Erdogan nearly two years ago.

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OZAN KOSE/AFP/Getty Images On 15 July 2016, a faction within Turkey’s military attempted ... who the government accuse of masterminding the coup. The Turkish president declared a three-month state of ...

In fact, this attempt to unseat him will almost certainly result in Erdogan’s becoming more authoritarian, and civil liberties in Turkey being ... more repressive after the coup attempt; it ...

Turkey is under a state of emergency imposed after a failed coup last July, allowing Erdoğan to head the cabinet and rule the country by decree, with weakened parliamentary and judicial oversight.

Turkey’s actions since the aborted coup have been grotesque ... University of the Negev after writing an op-ed arguing that Israel has become an apartheid state,” with the of thousands of ...

The Kremlin has no information that Russia reportedly warned Turkey ... that the state of emergency will be imposed in the country for three months following a failed military coup attempt.

EUROPEAN lawmakers have called for a freeze in talks after the Turkish president locked up thousands of his own people following a failed coup in July ©News Group Newspapers Limited in England No ...