Germany discusses ‘the long arm of Turkey’s Erdoğan’ in the country
A debate over a meeting between Turkish-German football players Mesut Özil and İlkay Gündoğan and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is continuing in Germany.
According...
US ‘deeply troubled’ by ‘unjust’ conviction of Turkish activist Kavala: State Department
The United States was “deeply troubled” by the conviction Monday of a leading Turkish activist, calling his life sentence on controversial charges of trying...
No foreign politician ever campaigned in Turkey, Çavuşoğlu denied holding rally in Germany
No foreign politician has ever visited Turkey to run a domestic political campaign, Turkey’s top diplomat admitted, even though his government stirred troubles with...
Report: While advising Trump in 2016, ex-CIA chief proposed plan to discredit Gülen
Former CIA director James Woolsey pitched a $10 million contract to two Turkish businessmen to help discredit US-based Turkish Muslim scholar Fethullah Gülen while...
US President Trump signs defence act suspending delivery of F 35s to Turkey
US President Donald Trump at a Monday ceremony in Fort Drum, New York, signed a national defense bill that suspends delivery of F35 Joint...
US says White House, State Department support ambassador in Turkey
The US Ambassador to Turkey, John Bass, has the support of the White House and US State Department in his decision to suspend visa...
Body of Kurdish asylum seeker discovered in Greek refugee detention center
A Kurdish asylum seeker from Turkey was discovered dead in the bathroom of a refugee detention center in Greece where he had been detained...
Turkey, Cambodia called on to implement UN body decision on expelled educator
The New York-based Journalists and Writers Foundation (JWF) has called on the governments of Turkey and Cambodia to implement a decision against the Kingdom...
Int’l bar associations urge Turkish gov’t to stop arbitrary detentions, torture
International bar associations have called on the UN Human Rights Council to urge the Turkish government to stop and remedy the arbitrary arrest, detention...
Turkish Embassy spied on critical journalist in Denmark, helped build false criminal case, secret...
Abdullah Bozkurt
The Turkish Embassy in Copenhagen profiled and monitored a Denmark-based Turkish journalist who was critical of the government in Ankara and had been...
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