COMMENTARY — Turkish government claims one-third of its diplomats are terrorists
By Abdullah Bozkurt
The Turkish foreign ministry has branded one third of its diplomats as terrorists by merely an executive decision without any judicial process...
SCF report on the Netherlands decodes Erdoğan’s long arm in Europe
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German union claims Turkey asked students to spy on Erdoğan critics
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The coordinator of...
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AI’s Vanderlinden: Erdogan abuses coup attempt as opportunity to silence all dissident voices
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Relatives of Turkish exiles fail to escape post-coup witch hunt, detained near Greek border
Four people were detained in Edirne province while they were allegedly on their way to escape to Greece, on Sunday.
Gendarmerie rounded up a former...
In an AKP meeting in Düsseldorf, Turkish PM Yıldırım accuses Germany of ‘harboring terrorists’
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım on Saturday accused Germany and other European countries of harboring “terrorist organizations.”
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