On Sunday, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan triumphed in a runoff election for the Turkish presidency that international observers deemed free but not fair. Erdoğan, the two decades-long leader of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), defeated his opponent...
Following Turkey’s highly-anticipated presidential election on May 14, incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and opposition leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu are headed to a runoff after both candidates failed to secure a majority of the vote. The close...
This week, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced the death of ISIS’s leader, Abu al-Hussain al-Hussaini al-Qurashi, during an operation carried out by Turkey’s National Intelligence Agency (MIT) in Syria. The U.S., however, has been unable...
"In this episode of 'The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green,' Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project, said it’s not enough to say he’s dead. You need to present evidence."
On this week’s edition of “The Hunt with WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green,” Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project, says this is a very troubling development because they actually had thousands of dollars to pay bribes.
Earlier this week, Turkey experienced its deadliest bombing in over five years when an explosion in Istanbul killed six people and injured at least 81 others. No group has yet to claim responsibility for the explosion. However, Turkey’s Interior...
"The executive director of Counter Extremism Project, David Ibsen, described the Grey Wolves as a 'international fascist, Turkish nationalist, and pan-Turkic organisation and movement'
Under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey has become a haven for terrorist operatives. It maintains open relations with extremist groups and harbors internationally sanctioned and wanted extremists affiliated with the Taliban, the Muslim...
Last week, Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid called on the Turkish government to shut down Hamas offices within Turkey’s borders after Israel broke up a Hamas cell of more than 50 operatives who Israel's Shin Bet security agency said were directed...
Coups are never a good thing, especially in countries that purport to be democracies like Turkey. Yet, the July 15 coup attempt would have been that country’s sixth since Kemal Ataturk enforced secularism in the 1920s after the demise of the Ottoman...
Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
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On May 8, 2019, Taliban insurgents detonated an explosive-laden vehicle and then broke into American NGO Counterpart International’s offices in Kabul. At least seven people were killed and 24 were injured.
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