In late July, a Turkish government agency announced a multi-day lobbying workshop in Washington for young people of Turkish origin living in the US and Canada. According to the Presidency for Turks Abroad and Related...

German media is reporting that the supreme Turkish religious authority has withdrawn its highest representative from Germany. According to a report in Die Welt: The Turkish religious authority Diyanet has removed the chairman of the...

A French higher education institution is reporting that the Council for Justice, Equality and Peace (COJEP), a  Turkish-French influence organization, organized a conference on Islamophobia at the European Parliament. The event featured Islamist speakers and...

Köksal Kuş, the president of a Turkish-European lobbying group, says he visited the head of the Turkish state’s Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet). According to Kuş’s tweet: We came together with our teacher Ali Erbaş...

Nordic Monitor reported in April that in disclosures filed under the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA), the US office of Turkey’s public broadcaster TRT falsely claimed it acts independently of the Turkish government. According to...

Turkish media is reporting that President Erdoğan’s AKP party is opening a representative office in the US, headed by an individual who has led a Turkish-American influence organization. According to the Tele1 report: 17 May...

A GIOR review of the website for the German branch of Turkish state broadcaster TRT reveals that several prominent Austrian political and military figures have written op-eds for the site. For example, in a recently...

Photographs posted by the Turkish Embassy in London show that Qurban Hussain, a British Member of the House of Lords, participated in a discussion about the 2016 failed coup attempt organized by the British Turkish...

A former Turkish diplomat has been appointed rector of the Turkish-German University (German: Türkisch-Deutsche Universität) in Istanbul. According to the university’s website: By Decision 2022/230 published in the Official Gazette on June 3, 2022 under...

A series of sponsored events and social media posts suggest that the Turkish government is using local groups to spread its message on the sixth anniversary of the July 2016 attempted coup in Turkey. In...