Syrian teenager stabbed to death in alleged hate crime

Sixteen-year-old Syrian Eymen Hammami was stabbed to death in an alleged hate crime in the northern city of Samsun on Sunday, the Evrensel daily...

Kurdish seasonal workers attacked by farmer, villagers in northwest Turkey

Sixteen Kurdish seasonal farm laborers were attacked on September 4 by a farm owner and a group of villagers in Turkey's northwestern province of...
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Syrian refugee shot dead in apparent hate crime

Syrian refugee Abdulkadir Davud (21) was shot dead on Sunday in what appears to be a hate crime in the Zeytinburnu district of İstanbul,...
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Armenian graves desecrated amid climate of hostility towards minority groups in Turkey

Some of the graves in the Armenian cemetery of either the Surp Pırgiç or Karasun Manug church foundation in the Sincan district of Ankara...

Turkish police adopt ISIS-like torture tactics, see women and girls as sex slaves: report

The terrible accounts of the torture of people in police custody at an unofficial detention site in Turkey, related by multiple victims in court...

Academic says Gülen movement followers should be sent to rehabilitation camps

A professor of communications, Muttalip Kutluk Özgüven, has said followers of the Gülen movement, accused by the Turkish government of masterminding a failed coup...

Twitter suspends more than 7,000 state-linked Turkish accounts

Twitter has suspended 7.340 fake and compromised state-linked accounts in Turkey that were targeting domestic audiences and promoting narratives favorable to the ruling Justice...

Erdoğan tells Trump Kurdish militia, Gülenists involved in US protests

The orchestrators of violence and looting during US protests against the death of a black man in police custody were working with the Kurdish...

Judge says in book people arrested in July 2016 coup probes should be executed

Selami Turabi, a judge who is also a senior official at the Justice Ministry responsible for European Union affairs, has written in his book...

Turkey playing Trump’s game in declaring Antifa a terrorist organization

Turkey has been trying to play US President Donald Trump’s game by painting Antifa as a terrorist organization in official remarks and pro-government media...

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