The case of the comedian Deniz Göktaş, who is in prison for his jokes about corruption in the Turkish political system, is just the latest in a long series of instances in which challenging those in power – particularly through irony – is punished in order to silence critics and preserve the stability of the existing order

16/07/2026, Burcu Karakaş  Istanbul

Bosnia and Herzegovina has not completed any of the 113 reform steps it committed to implementing in exchange for Growth Plan funds. With almost a billion earmarks and deadlines approaching, the gap between what was promised and what has been delivered is stark – and growing.

15/07/2026, Sanja Vasić 

14/07/2026, Dimitri Bettoni, Andrea Lazzaroni 

Ten years after the 2016 coup attempt in Turkey, we have gathered four firsthand accounts from the country. A 26-year-old woman in today’s Turkey: “There is a strong tradition of disobedience, we must regain our independence”

14/07/2026, Andrea Lazzaroni 

Ten years after the 2016 coup attempt in Turkey, we have gathered four firsthand accounts from the country. Sabahattin, 46 years old president of the Veterans and Martyrs’ Families Foundation, recalls: “Allah commanded us to protect the state against any aggression”

14/07/2026, Andrea Lazzaroni 

Ten years after the 2016 coup attempt in Turkey, we have gathered four firsthand accounts from the country. A 36-year-old from Istanbul, Kübra is a “raised and born activist” for Havle, a Muslim feminist association. She does not support Erdoğan, but states that the success of the coup “would have set the country back 20 years”

14/07/2026, Dimitri Bettoni