Bodies found in Aegean Sea show volume of cruelty and oppression in Turkey
While trying to escape from Turkey to Mytilene Island of Greece, a family with three children, who disappeared in the Aegean Sea, were found...
Turkish police detain 6 people as trying to flee from Turkey to Bulgaria
Turkish police have detained 11 people, including 5 children, in Yenikadın village of Edirne province as they were trying to flee from Turkey to...
Activists call on Turkish gov’t to release jailed babies, mothers on World Children’s Rights...
A silent demonstration was held by a group of activists in The Hague, the Parliamentary Capital of the Netherlands, on November 20 World Children’s...
Turkish family of five drowned in Aegean Sea as trying to flee from Erdoğan...
A Turkish family of five allegedly drowned in Aegean Sea as they were trying to flee from the persecution of the despotic regime of...
Turkish gov’t claims ‘Zarrab case in US is a plot against Turkey’
The court case in New York against Turkish-Iranian gold trader Reza Zarrab on charges that he violated US sanctions on Iran through Turkish banks...
Erdoğan’s advisor: NATO behind all coups, Turkey must review membership
Yalçın Topçu, a key advisor of Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, on Monday said NATO was behind all coups in Turkey, stating that...
Turkey withdraws from the UN Climate Conference after disagreement
Turkish committee left the 23rd United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany, after its proposals were rejected, Habertürk reported on Sunday.
According to...
Germany in communication with Interpol to protect refugees from Turkey
German Federal government wants to develop a better cooperation with Interpol to protect its citizens and refugees from the persecution of Turkish government under...
EU cuts financial aid to Turkey, Ankara tries to downplay it
European Union (EU) has decided to cut financial aid to Turkey by 105 million Euros for its provisional budget for 2018 over its deterioration of...
COMMENTARY — US-indicted Turkish banker’s ties to Iran’s IRGC ensnare Greece
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Levent Balkan, a former executive of Turkey’s state lender Halkbank, has been the key operative in assembling a team and setting up...
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Sippenhaft, also known as...