PACE’s UEL Group urges for the rights of elected Members of Parliament of Turkey...
Tiny Kox, the leader of the Group of the Unified European Left at the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE) has sent a letter to...
HRW urges Turkey to investigate airstrikes that killed or injured civilians in Syria
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Friday Turkey should investigate the harm done to civilians in its Oct. 5-10 aerial campaign against Kurdish militants in Syria,...
Turkey’s main opposition CHP makes Erdoğan’s relatives’ off-shore bank documents public
Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) spokesperson Bülent Tezcan provided the media with documents purportedly revealing off-shore bank transactions of the close circle...
French magazine reveals widespread corruption in Turkey’s DİTİB in France
French weekly magazine Le Point has discovered through documents it obtained that there is extensive corruption in the French branch of the Turkish-Islamic Union...
Pro-Erdoğan Turkish reporter fined 5,000 euros by German court for defaming kindergarten
Rahmi Turan, a Turkish reporter who works for the staunchly pro-government aHaber TV station, has been handed down a fine of 5,000 euros by...
Turkish gov’t detains 9 people fleeing to Greece to escape persecution in Turkey
The Turkish government detained nine people in Edirne province on Thursday as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt targeting alleged members of the...
EP Turkey rapporteur says ‘geopolitics not an excuse for deficit of democracy’
The process for Turkey’s accession to the European Union cannot simply be overridden by geopolitics, European Parliament Standing Rapporteur for Turkey Nacho Sánchez Amor...
Turkey bars entry of critics by adding their names next to ISIL suspects
Turkey has been arbitrarily refusing the entry for foreign nationals of Turkish origin who are deemed critical of the country's autocratic President Recep Tayyip...
Pro-Erdoğan journalist tracked Turkish political dissidents while using fake name and address in Denmark
Abdurrahman Şimşek, news coordinator for the Sabah newspaper, which is aligned with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has been "mapping" political dissidents from...
Turkish imam in Australia mobilizes worshippers to spy on Gülen movement
Süleyman Arslan, a member of the board of the Ankara-funded Süleymaniye Mosque in the Australian city of Perth, was revealed to have incited worshipers...
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