Human rights group urges foreign gov’ts to ensure safety of Gülen followers

US/Virginia-based human rights organization Advocates of Silenced Turkey (AST) in a piece on Huffington Post has called on foreign governments to ensure the safety...

US 2018 human rights report: Restrictions on fundamental freedoms continued in Turkey

A country report by the US State Department released on Wednesday stated that despite the official end of a two-year-long state of emergency in...

US, German companies imposing unofficial sanctions on Turkey, minister says

Turkish Defense Minister Nurettin Canikli said on Tuesday that several German and American companies are denying or delaying parts Turkey uses in its defense...

Jailed Turkish journalist’s wife slams ECtHR for causing unlawfulness to be reproduced in Turkey

Imprisoned Turkish journalist Ahmet Şık's wife Yonca Şık has harshly criticised the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and accused the court of causing unlawfulness...

Germany vetoes Erdoğan’s guards wanted by US

German authorities have signaled that they do not want the members of Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s security detail who attacked protesters in...

Survey: Majority of Turks believe Europe wants to divide Turkey

An overwhelming majority of Turks believe that Europe wants to divide Turkey in the same way the Ottoman Empire was divided, according to a...

The Netherlands disallows visit of Turkish mayor Fatma Şahin

On the first anniversary of a diplomatic crisis between Turkey and the Netherlands, The Hague has disallowed the planned visit of a ruling party...

COMMENTARY — Turkey’s Erdoğan sowing the seeds of jihadist ideology among African students

By Abdullah Bozkurt The scary spectacle of how African exchange students who receive their education in Turkey on government scholarships are being indoctrinated in jihadist...

Turkish ground forces move into Syria’s Afrin province with FSA

Turkish ground forces have started to move into Syria’s Afrin province with Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters on Sunday. Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency...

US, Germany condemn arrests of human rights activists urge Turkey to release them

The Uninted States (US) administration and Germany have strongly condemned Turkish government over arrest of six human rights defenders. US State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert...

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