Mohammad Behzad Fatmi

Washington's support to the Kurds has become a major sticking point in Turkey-US relations.

It has issued a decree granting sweeping immunity to civilians who suppressed the coup bid against Erdogan government.

But the brunt of the president's anger is likely to be faced by the innocent citizens incarcerated in Turkey.

Ankara has been pressing governments worldwide to crack down on institutions affiliated with the Gulen movement that it blames for the 2016 coup bid.

Since July 15, 2016, the rule of law in the country has degraded at an alarming speed.

Pakistan has something to do with it.

Journalists must ask Turkey's president how he claims to have advanced his country's democracy, when facts suggest otherwise.

Recep Erdogan will have powers at his disposal that no other president in developed democracies has.

Simultaneous abuse of the religion in majority and stoking of nationalist sentiments by the ruling regime must alarm us.

It's too early to name anyone for the crime, but Andrei Karlov was no victim of the Gulen movement.

Mevlut Cavusoglu is in India from August 18-20.

Their prime concern seems the defence of a political Islamist who talks of the revival of a lost caliphate.

Erdogan government is trying to further muzzle the opposing voices in the country.

The ruling dispensation has created a superficial, larger than life enemy.

Turkey is sadly paying a hard price for a power-hungry Erdogan.

Critics of the government are targeted – some even facing attempts on their lives.

The country is placing its trust in him to bring illicit activities of president Erdogan and affiliates to light.

With government's takeover of Feza Media Group, citizens will now be fed only those news that the ruling party wants them to know.

Until all Indians' right to food, shelter and a dignified standard of living is ensured, sloganeering won't promote patriotism.

Intolerance towards dissenters characterises both leaders.

Is the community itself also to blame?

EU and US cannot be expected to anger the Erdogan's government by interfering in its internal affairs.

It is a betrayal to the university the prime minister once denigrated as supporting terror.

If you think BNP's ideology is xenophobic, can BJP leaders' views be legitimate, tolerant and progressive?

Apparently, the voters didn't want to risk another fruitless coalition government negotiations between uncompromising political parties.

Greed for power, lust of money and addiction to authority have doomed his political image.

The cost of an early election is too harsh and brutal for the country.

One of the challenges Habeeba Unnisa is facing these days in Turkey is that people confuse her to be a Syrian.

Will June 7 elections rid the county of the AKP party which has mastered the art of creating an artificial enemy and gaining public sympathy by playing victim?