As China and Turkey grow increasingly closer to reaching agreement on an extradition treaty, Turkey’s population of some 50,000 Uyghur refugees fear that they will be deported to China, where they face egregious human rights violations and religious persecution. Just last weekend, China’s National People’s Congress engaged in dialogue regarding the treaty, and it appears […]
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President Erdogan once again has decided to turn an ancient Orthodox church and current museum- former Church of St. Saviour in Chora and currently the Kariye Museum- into a mosque.
About one month ago, in June 2020, the Turkish military initiated Operation Claw-Tiger targeting members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) located in Northern Iraq, where some hundreds of PKK bases are located.
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Photo by Zen zeee on Unsplash On July 10, 2020, President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, announced that the Hagia Sophia museum, despite its status on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage List, would be converted into an active mosque. Just last week, according to Al Jazeera, a Turkish court
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