Organised crime and Turkey's deep state - a conversation with Ryan Gingeras
Ahval journalist John Lubbock talks to Ryan Gingeras, author of the book 'Heroin, organized crime and the making of modern Turkey' about the recent release of mafia boss Alaattin Çakıcı.
18 Huhti 202048min
The Erdoğan government is turning into a war regime - Yektan Türkyılmaz
EUME fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin, Yektan Türkyılmaz, discusses the Idlib attack, in which 36 Turkish troops were killed with AhvalPod and suggests that the Erdoğan’s governmen...
29 Helmi 202029min
Turkey in an embarrassing situation after Assad captures key Idlib town - expert
Turkey and its allies are facing a difficult situation in the northwestern Syrian town of Idlib, particularly after the forces of Syrian President Bashar Assad seized the control of Saraqib in eastern...
8 Helmi 20208min
Fincancı talks to Ahval about her presentation at the UNHRC
Turkish human rights advocate Şebnem Korur Fincancı shared with Ahval her reflections on last week's United Nations periodic review of Turkey, which focused on the country's human rights violations in...
7 Helmi 202012min
Twelve months of Erdoğan
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had a tough 2019. He had to deal with rising food prices, losing local elections in his political strong hold of Istanbul, power that opposed his ambitions to bu...
26 Joulu 201959min
Turkey’s ruling AKP not a monolithic Islamist movement - Birol Başkan
Birol Başkan, a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute whose research broadly focuses on religion and political order in the Middle East, spoke to Ahval about how Islamism has incorporated ...
24 Joulu 201935min
Yektan Türkyılmaz: What happened to Armenians in 1915 is very well documented
Turkey has been proposing for years to establish a commission of historians to decide whether the mass killings of Armenians in 1915 by the Ottoman Empire should be defined as genocide. Turkish author...
10 Joulu 201928min
