Nordic Monitor is a news portal that reports about developments on extremism, terrorism, crime, foreign policy, security and military matters. It is updated regularly with in-depth investigative pieces on various public interest issues with specific focus Turkey
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Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm The government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, long plagued by entrenched systemic corruption and blatant political interference in law enforcement at home, has also failed to establish an effective framework to prevent politically connected Turkish companies from using bribery to advance their commercial interests abroad, according to a damning new assessment by the…
Levent Kenez/Stockholm A planned $283 million transfer of US-made weapons from Turkey to Ukraine has sparked a sharp warning from Moscow, adding a point of tension to relations between Ankara and the Kremlin as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan strengthens ties with US President Donald Trump and Turkey reduces some of its energy dependence on Russia. […]
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkey’s latest military appointments show a command structure in transition. Although officers who began their careers long before President Recep Tayyip Erdogan came to power still occupy the top ranks, a younger generation is moving rapidly upward, advancing much faster than traditional military norms would dictate. The post-2016 coup purges and Erdogan’s restructuring…
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A Turkish national who was expelled from the Netherlands after being convicted of preparing a terrorist attack was able to reconnect with the jihadist ecosystem after settling in Turkey and ultimately make his way to Somalia, where he joined the local branch of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and was […]
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Turkey’s Revenue Administration (GİB) released its annual list of top income taxpayers this week, with the most striking detail not the people who topped it but rather those who refused to be named at all. Of the 100 individuals who paid the highest income tax in the country for the 2025 filing year, […]
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Turkey has transferred far-reaching powers over wiretapping, internet access, communications infrastructure, online censorship and digital traffic from the country’s telecommunications regulator to the executive-controlled Cyber Security Presidency (Siber Güvenlik Başkanlığ), a sweeping restructuring that is designed to further empower President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and…
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm Turkey has steadily expanded its overseas intelligence machinery far beyond the formal ranks of its national spy agency, recruiting foreign nationals, cultivating retired Western intelligence and security officials and enlisting politically connected businesspeople and private companies to collect sensitive information, shape foreign-government policies, run influence…
Levent Kenez/Stockholm Somalia has for the first time sent an entire brigade of its elite Gorgor commandos to Turkey for training, expanding a military program that has already produced thousands of Turkish-trained troops and whose graduates have been used against both Al-Shabaab militants and in Somalia’s increasingly militarized political disputes. The move points to how […]
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A Jordanian drug trafficker with a criminal record stretching back three decades was able to settle in Turkey under a false identity, obtain a residence permit, establish a company in Istanbul and even secure legal protection when faced with an arrest warrant from Brazil. Waleed Issa Ahmad Khamees (65), whose surname appears in […]
Abdullah Bozkurt/Stockholm A senior Hamas operative based in Istanbul allegedly used a major UK-registered Islamic charity to secretly channel millions of dollars, truckloads of goods and other resources to a terrorism-designated militant organization while presenting the operation to donors and international organizations as humanitarian relief for civilians in Gaza, according to a newly unsealed…
