Kyrgyz hold vigil in hope of finding missing educator
Kyrgyz who have been protesting since the suspicious disappearance of an educator in the country held a silent vigil in Bishkek on Monday in...
Turkish citizen, companies designated as global terrorists by US Treasury
The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Thursday designated as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) a Turkish citizen...
Turkish court sentences British citizen to 7 years for fighting with Kurds against ISIL
A Turkish court has reportedly sentenced to prison a British citizen who joined Kurdish forces battling radical Islamist terror organization the Islamic State in...
COMMENTARY — Turkey intel-linked ISIL man posed as a refugee, went through Greece, registered...
By Abdullah Bozkurt
A chilling account of a suspect in the deadliest terror attack in Turkey that was blamed on Islamic State of Iraq and...
German justice minister calls Erdoğan’s Nazi remarks ‘absurd’
German Justice Minister Heiko Maas has described Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s remarks ‘absurd’ who accused Germany of employing practices similar to those...
Arab students face arbitrary detentions in Turkey
Arab students who have previously studied at universities shut down by the Turkish government in the aftermath of a coup attempt on July 15,...
Germany Chancellor Merkel talks human rights with Turkey’s Erdoğan
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan faced criticism over press freedom and human rights violations in Turkey when he met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in...
3-year-old in intensive care, Turkey’s purge victim parents in detention after boat tragedy
A three-year-old Turkish boy is fighting for his life and his parents are in police custody after their boat capsized in the Aegean Sea...
Alleged Gülen movement followers in Turkey face ongoing detentions, social exclusion: Dutch gov’t report
A newly published report by the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security briefing the relevant authorities on asylum applications notes that Turkish authorities continue to detain,...
EU countries to grant 5-year renewable residence permits to asylum seekers
European Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee approved a regulation on Thursday that grants residence permits for all beneficiaries of international protection in the EU for...
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