Leyla İmret, a dismissed pro-Kurdish mayor in Turkey, gives speech at CoE
A former mayor of Turkey’s Cizre district in the southeastern province of Şırnak who is being sought on an arrest warrant for alleged terror...
US senator visits jailed Pastor Brunson ahead of trial in Turkey’s İzmir
US Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) announced on Wednesday that he visited Andrew Craig Brunson, an American pastor who faces 35 years in prison for...
‘I’m not greater than the judiciary,’ Turkey’s Erdoğan tells Juncker over Greek soldiers
Autocratic Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has told European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker that he is no greater than the Turkish judiciary, in responding...
Turkish gov’t arrests German citizen for trying to join YPG in Syria
A German national has been arrested in Turkey for allegedly trying to join the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units YPG militia, Turkish media reported....
Turkish lawyer calls for arrest of former US district attorney Preet Bharara
The US district attorney who launched the trial of Turkish banker Mehmet Hakan Atilla for violating sanctions on Iran may think twice about setting...
Turkish banker Atilla’s lawyers ask judge to ‘temper justice with mercy’ in a lesser...
Lawyers for Turkish banker Mehmet Hakan Atilla, who was convicted in New York federal court in January of violating US sanctions on Iran, asked...
PACE co-rapporteurs Mikko and Evans to make fact-finding visit to Turkey
Marianne Mikko (Estonia, SOC) and Nigel Evans (United Kingdom, EC), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), will be making...
Turkish court rules to keep two Greek soldiers in prison
A court in Turkey’s northwestern Edirne province on Tuesday ruled to keep in prison two Greek soldiers who were detained by Turkish troops patrolling...
Wiretaps reveal Turkey’s Erdoğan intervened in protests in Berlin against Armenian bill
Wiretaps of phone conversations between autocratic Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy Metin Külünk have revealed Erdoğan’s interference...
2 Turkish soldiers killed in Syria’s Afrin region
Two Turkish soldiers were killed on Monday in Syria’s northwestern Afrin region during a sweep and clear mission, according to a statement made by...
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