Turkish Interior Ministry: 24,545 Turks renounced their citizenship in 2016
The Turkish Interior Ministry’s General Directorate of Population and Citizenship Affairs has announced that a total of 24,545 Turks renounced their Turkish citizenship in...
Life sentence demanded for NSU member accused of murdering 8 Turks
Federal prosecutors demanded a life sentence for Beate Zschäpe, a member of the right-wing neo-Nazi extremist group National Socialist Underground (NSU), accusing her of...
Kosovo grants asylum to Turkish educator who escaped MİT abduction attempt
Uğur Toksoy, a Turkish national allegedly affiliated with the Gülen movement, was granted asylum in Kosovo after escaping an attempted abduction by Turkey's National...
Panel discusses Turkey’s dire human rights situation on sidelines of UN meeting
A panel of experts on Monday tackled Turkey’s human rights record on the occasion of the 56th meeting of the United Nations Human Rights...
COMMENTARY — Turkey scrambled to contain fallout from Erdoğan’s jihadist friends
By Abdullah Bozkurt
It appears Turkey’s intelligence agency, which has long trafficked, armed and supported foreign fighters in the bloody Syrian civil war since 2011...
Israeli court orders Turkish woman’s conditional release
An Israeli court on Monday ordered the conditional release of Ebru Özkan, a Turkish citizen who has been under arrest since June 11 for...
Turkish gov’t to stop sending students to American universities
The Turkish government will stop sending students to the United States for postgraduate studies and limit the number it sends to European and Asian...
Turkish citizens third largest group filing for asylum in Europe in 2022
Turkish citizens filed a total of 55,000 asylum applications in EU countries, Switzerland and Norway in 2022, making Turks the third largest group of...
Turkish-backed militias cut down nearly 1.5 mln trees in Afrin: report
Turkish-backed Syrian militias have cut down nearly 1.5 million trees, including 650,000 olive trees, in the past three years in the Syrian district of...
Turks’ asylum applications in Germany up 12.3 pct in first two months of 2024
Turkish nationals filed 12.3 percent more applications for asylum in Germany in the first two months of 2024 than the number submitted in the...
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