US approves ban on selling guns to Erdoğan’s security detail
The US Senato has approved the draft proposing ban on selling guns to Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s security detail, CNN Türk reported...
Turkish government gives Aslı Erdoğan back her seized passport
Turkish writer Aslı Erdoğan, who was released from prison on Dec. 29, 2016 after 132 days in jail due to links to the pro-Kurdish...
Turkish spy Sayan confesses working for MİT at first hearing in Germany for monitoring...
Mehmet Fatih Sayan, an alleged member of National Intelligence Agency (MİT) of Turkey, has stood trial for alleged plans to assassinate Kurdish politicians in...
US Senate committee chairman asks if Turkey has become too dangerous for foreigners to...
Republican Senator Bob Corker, chairman of the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, on Wednesday questioned whether or not it’s safe for foreigners to...
US charges former Turkish minister, 3 others with conspiring to evade sanctions on Iran
The US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced on Wednesday the filing of a superseding indictment charging former Turkish Economy...
German comedian threatens Merkel with court action over Erdoğan poem
German comedian Jan Böhmermann has threatened German Chancellor Angela Merkel with court action unless she takes back a statement concerning a poem by Böhmermann...
COMMENTARY — Turkey’s Maarif Foundation: Erdoğan’s Trojan horse
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government, led by overly ambitious and self-aggrandizing President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has spent millions of...
Germany warns citizens vacationing in Turkey of arbitrary arrests
The German foreign ministry has updated a travel warning for citizens currently holidaying or planning to vacation in Turkey, saying they could be arbitrarily...
Germany’s Merkel to push EU partners to review Turkey’s accession to EU
German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned on Tuesday that Turkey is backsliding on the rule of law and vowed to urge other EU member countries...
BHRC raises serious concern over violations of international law and fair trial rights in...
Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) has released its trial observations from the first substantive proceedings against journalists in Turkey in June 2017....
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