Illegal arms shipped from Turkey seized in Nigeria
An illegal arms shipment originating in Turkey and containing 440 pump action rifles was seized on Monday in Lagos, Nigeria, according to Agence France-Presse.
The...
Karaman and Özçelik, Turkish nationals deported illegally by Malaysian gov’t, arrested by Ankara court
Turkish educators Turgay Karaman and İsmet Özçelik, who were turned over to Turkey by Malaysian government under questionable circumstances with a total disregard to due...
Managing editor of defunct Nokta newsweekly detained as trying to flee Turkey
Journalist Murat Çapan, the former managing editor of now-defunct Nokta newsweekly, who was sentenced by a Turkish court to more than 22 years in jail...
Malta Files reveal Turkish PM Yıldırım’s family enterprise is worth over 100 million euros
An investigation into Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım’s family enterprise, part of the European Investigative Collaborations’ (EIC) Malta Files, has revealed that his family...
Turkish pro-Erdoğan dailies say Manchester attack result of UK support for ISIL
Two staunchly pro-Erdoğan Turkish newspapers, Güneş and Yeni Akit, have accused the UK of supporting the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)...
Backlash from Congress grows over attack on protestors by Turkish security
As Turkey attempts to shift the blame to US law enforcement for a violent attack by Turkish security personnel on protestors outside the Turkish...
Turkey’s espionage activities in Malaysia exposed as more details uncovered
The abductions, detentions and extraditions of three Turkish nationals in Malaysia as part of clandestine operation by Turkey’s state security services in cooperation with...
NBA star Kanter says he fled Indonesia after Turkey’s intelligence pursued him
NBA Oklahoma City Thunder player Enes Kanter, who was briefly detained on Saturday at an airport in Romania upon a request from the Turkish...
Turkish Foreign Ministry delivers diplomatic note to US ambassador over violence in DC
Turkey’s Foreign Ministry on Monday summoned US Ambassador to Ankara John Bass to deliver a diplomatic note over a melee outside the Turkish diplomatic...
Turkey’s foreign ministry labels 394 Turkish diplomats as terrorists
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Turkey’s foreign ministry has branded almost 500 of its employees as ‘terrorists’ without any judicial proceedings and purged them from the government...
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