Reuters.com | By Daren Butler, Ece Toksabay

ANKARA (Reuters) - A top Turkish prosecutor filed a case with the constitutional court on Wednesday demanding the closure of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), in the culmination of a years-long clampdown on parliament’s third largest party.

State.gov | Ned Price, Department Spokesperson

Press Statement

Euobserver.com |  By Nils Muižnieks 

Turkey's disregard for human rights has recently become particularly brazen. It is not only jailing innocent journalists, human rights defenders, protesting students and social media activists, it is also ramping up political persecution and ignoring European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) rulings to release people unjustly imprisoned.

Foreignpolicy.com | By Robbie Gramer, Katie Livingstone, Jack Detsch

If U.S.-Turkey relations were already strained under Trump, Biden’s pressure on Ankara raises questions about the relationship with a longtime NATO ally. 

Jpost.com | By BERNARD-HENRI LÉVY, THOMAS S. KAPLAN

This exercise in pro-Ankara propaganda neatly parrots the Turkish military occupation’s script.

theguardian.com | Bethan McKernan in Istanbul | Thu 25 Feb 2021

After decades in hiding, in prison or keeping low profile, players from a bloody period in the country’s history are now seen as ‘folk idols’ by the Turkish right

nytimes.com| Feb. 23, 2021 | By Ben Hubbard and Hwaida Saad

After a decade of war, the biggest threat now to President Bashar al-Assad is an economic crisis. But at a recent meeting, he had no concrete solutions to his country’s extreme distress.

Nytimes.com | By Carlotta Gall

ISTANBUL — Turks reacted with shock and anger Monday to the news that Kurdish guerrillas had executed 13 Turkish soldiers and police officers held captive in a cave in the mountains of northern Iraq.

KOJO, Iraq — They had waited years to bury the remains of their husbands, sons and brothers. Cradling fresh earth draped in Iraqi flags, the Yazidi women called out as if their loved ones could still hear them.