Turkey’s PM Yıldırım says Gülen movement was behind arrest of Halkbank’s Atilla in US
Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım on Saturday said the faith-based Gülen movement was responsible for the detention of Halkbank Deputy General Manager Mehmet Hakan Atilla...
Turkish government’s long arm failed to abduct Gülen-affiliated teacher in Moldova
Turgay Şen, the general director of the Orizont High School in the Moldovan capital of Chisinau, has claimed asylum in the country in order to escape...
Erdoğan praises Merkel for not criticizing Turkey’s policies
Amid tension between Berlin and Ankara, Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Thursday that he was hopeful about Turkey’s relations with Germany...
Iraqi court sentences 15 Turkish women to death over ties with ISIL
An Iraqi criminal court sentenced 15 Turkish women to death after finding them guilty of having links to the radical Islamist terror group Islamic...
European Parliament decides to cut IPA funds for Turkey
Johannes Hahn, the European Union Commissioner for European Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations, said the EU will cut 40 percent of the European Instrument for Pre-Accession...
Turkish Embassy in Niger tracks down critics, violating the Vienna Convention
Turkish government documents obtained by Nordic Monitor have confirmed that critics of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan were spied on by Turkish diplomats in Niamey,...
Turkish journalist in exile says NATO must call Turkey’s bluff on his extradition
Bülent Keneş, a Turkish journalist living in exile in Sweden, said the world should know by now that most people Turkish President Recep Tayyip...
Report: PYD’s former leader Muslim detained in Prague
Salih Muslim, former co-chairperson of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) was detained in Czech capital Prague on Sunday, Turkey's state-run Anadolu news...
Turkish Embassy in Tirana spied on Erdoğan critics, describing them as ‘malignant cells’
The Turkish Embassy in Albania engaged in a campaign of intelligence gathering and profiling of critics of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, documents obtained by...
Germany warns citizens visiting Turkey about online criticism of Erdoğan
Germany has warned its citizens visiting Turkey to be extra cautious about their social media feeds in response to a spate of cases of...
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