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Turkey coup attempt

May 2023

  • A woman sits on her balcony next to a banner featuring Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

    The Guardian view on Turkey’s election: an end to Erdoğan’s authoritarianism?

  • Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu.

    Erdoğan faces real chance of losing as Turkey gets ready to vote

November 2020

  • Police officers stand guard at the entrance of the Sincan penal institution at the 4th heavy penal court near Ankara

    Turkish court jails hundreds for life over 2016 coup attempt

    Army officers, pilots and civilians convicted of being leaders in plot to take power

July 2020

  • German human rights activist Peter Steudtner

    Former Amnesty Turkey leaders convicted on terror charges

    Istanbul court finds human rights activists guilty of seeking to wreak ‘chaos in society’

June 2020

  • Man holding up noose around neck of effigy of cleric

    Turkey convicts US consulate employee of terrorism offence

    Metin Topuz was accused of links to cleric Fethullah Gülen, blamed for 2016 coup

December 2018

  • Istanbul<br>circa 1915: The city of Istanbul (Constantinople). (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

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  • A Turkish man protests against the government of Erdoğan.

    Like a Sword Wound review – vibrant and engrossing

October 2018

  • Kenan Malik

    Turkey should look to its own brutal treatment of journalists

    Kenan Malik
  • FILE PHOTO: U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen at his home in Saylorsburg<br>FILE PHOTO: U.S.-based Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen at his home in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S. July 10, 2017. REUTERS/Charles Mostoller/File Photo

    Fethullah Gülen: shot fired at 'intruder' at Turkish cleric's Pennsylvania home

July 2018

  • Police officers near central Istanbul’s Taksim Square

    'Suffocating climate of fear' in Turkey despite end of state of emergency

    Laws enacted after 2016 coup attempt are lifted, but Recep Tayyip Erdoğan appears determined to continue pursuit of opponents

June 2018

  • TURKEY-POLITICS-KURDS-VOTE-PARTIES-HDP-DEMO<br>Supporters of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) hold placards reading "Free Demirtas" in front of Istanbul's Courthouse on May 21, 2018, to demand the release of Pro-Kurdish party leader Selahattin Demirtas who is currently in a Turkish jail. - Turkey's jailed former pro-Kurdish party leader Selahattin Demirtas, 45, who is running against the Turkish President in the June 24 polls despite being held in jail for the last one-and-a-half years, lambasted the "unfairness" of his campaign conditions, but said he was ready to rally voters from prison. (Photo by OZAN KOSE / AFP)        (Photo credit should read OZAN KOSE/AFP/Getty Images)

    Turkey's jailed journalists
    Inside stories: Turkey’s grim tradition of publishing behind bars

    Former HDP leader Selahattin Demirtaş has published a short story collection, written while in jail awaiting trial – just the latest example of a writer clashing with Turkey’s government
  • Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

    Greece puts men accused over Turkey coup attempt under armed guard

    Athens takes strict measures to protect eight commandos who fled after failed putsch in 2016
  • Greek prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, left, welcomes Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, before their meeting in Athens last December

    Turkey escalates row with Greece over 'putschist' soldiers

    Erdoğan sends F-16 fighter jets into Greek airspace after pre-trial release of eight officers

May 2018

  • Recep Tayyip Erdoğan addresses the closing session of the Tatlıdil Forum

    Campaigners call for UK to act on rights as Turkish president arrives

  • Meral Aksener sits in front of a portrait of the founder of the Turkish republic, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, in the Ankara headquarters of her İyi (Good) party

    Turkey's iron lady: 'It's time for the men in power to feel fear'

April 2018

  • Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said Ankara had already made the offer to Greece.

    Greece angrily rejects Erdoğan's proposed soldier swap

    Turkish president said he could release two Greek border guards if Athens extradites officers who fled after coup attempt

February 2018

  • Hakan Sukur

    Hakan Sukur – Turkey’s fallen hero who can never return home

    Scorer of the fastest World Cup goal had the president of Turkey as a wedding guest but now lives in enforced exile in the US

December 2017

  • Turkish foreign minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu

    Greek government files request to cancel Turkish soldier's asylum

    Soldier accused of involvement in last year’s coup attempt granted asylum by Greece but decision is met with anger from Turkey
  • The Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras, left, welcomes Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to Athens on Thursday

    Confrontational Erdoğan stuns Greek hosts on Athens visit

    Turkish leader jettisoned diplomatic niceties during meetings that were supposed to cement ties between the rivals
  • Opposition politicians Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ will appear in court on trumped-up charges of terrorism, facing lengthy jail sentences

    Democracy in Turkey is going on trial

    Letters: A letter signed by Noam Chomsky, Clive Lewis MP, Peter Tatchell and others calls for opposition politicians Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ to be released from prison
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