Turkish-Canadian organizations lobby Trudeau regarding misinformation campaign

 Prime Minister Trudeau recently received a letter signed by 20 local and national Turkish-Canadian organizations representing strong and vibrant Turkish-Canadian communities. The coalition has directed its concerns to Trudeau about what it calls the ongoing disinformation campaign in Canada regarding recent developments in the South Caucasus region where a border conflict

Turkey’s ‘annus horribilis’

 The BBC’s Turkey correspondent, Mark Lowen, recently wrote that 2016 had “exhausted Turkey.” He was referring to the seemingly endless suicide attacks and car bombings that had stunned the country, the deadly but failed July military coup, and the devastating clashes between government forces and the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) in Turkey’s

Remembering the Politics of Fear

   The recent debate over the admittance of Syrian refugees is ominously reminiscent of events that took place over a century ago in Canada. Indeed, Syrians were among the hundreds of thousands of immigrants who entered Canada, aggressively recruited by Canadian government agents and their proxies throughout Europe, the Ottoman

The Lost Turks of Brantford, Ontario

 The internment of Turkish Canadians took place during the First World War.  In 1890s Brantford, Ontario was the third largest industrial city in Canada, after Montreal and Toronto. Known as the "Birmingham of Canada," it was a major centre of the new tractor and auto industries including Massey-Harris, (later Massey-Ferguson). A Brantford