Turkey's global campaign of extractions and kidnappings
Today’s Financial Times piece titled “Turkish intrigue in the Balkans” has brought renewed attention to Ankara’s transnational and illegal campaign of extractions and kidnappings of Turkish nationals in other countries. Nate Schenkkan, the Director for Research Strategy at Freedom House, joins us to discuss this campaign by Turkey which he has been monitoring since 2016, and the broader ramifications of global transnational repression.
Read the Financial Times article we cover along with Nate Schenkkan’s publications on the issue:
Erdogan’s great game: Turkish intrigue in the Balkans
Global Purge: Understanding and Responding to Transnational Repression
Nate Schenkkan’s twitter thread on Turkey’s global purge
The Remarkable Scale of Turkey’s “Global Purge”
You can read the articles we discuss on The Daily Roundup here:
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