Turkish court again rejects Greek soldiers’ request for release
A Turkish court on Tuesday ruled that two Greek soldiers charged with espionage and illegally entering the country would remain in jail, the Hürriyet...
Erdoğan invokes pan-Turkic ‘Kızıl Elma’ myth as Turkish military aims at Afrin
Turkey’s autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday invoked a militaristic Turkish myth that symbolizes world domination and unification of all Turkic peoples as...
AI launches campaign protesting trial of Turkish activists on trumped-up ‘terrorism’ charges
Stefan Simanowitz, Amnesty International’s media director for Europe, has launched a campaign on Twitter protesting the trial of AI Turkey Chair Taner Kılıç, Director...
German Medical Association calls for release of physician arrested over chemical weapons remarks
Dr. Klaus Reinhardt, president of the German Medical Association, has called on President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to ensure the release of the head of...
Report: Pro-Assad forces enter Syria’s Afrin, Turkish military responds
Turkey is bombarding forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad after they entered the enclave of Afrin on Tuesday, CNN Turk television reported citing Syrian state...
Amnesty International calls for ‘Urgent Action’ on Turkish educator in Georgia
Human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) has called international community for 'urgent action' to prevent extradition of Turkish teacher Mustafa Emre Çabuk from Georgia. AI...
ECtHR drops case on Turkey’s Roboski massacre due to late arrival of documents
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has dropped a case regarding the Uludere (Roboski) massacre, in which 34 people, mostly youngsters, were killed...
European Parliament decides to cut IPA funds for Turkey
Johannes Hahn, the European Union Commissioner for European Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations, said the EU will cut 40 percent of the European Instrument for Pre-Accession...
Israeli court orders Turkish woman’s conditional release
An Israeli court on Monday ordered the conditional release of Ebru Özkan, a Turkish citizen who has been under arrest since June 11 for...
Turkish diplomats in Hungary spied on Erdoğan government critics as part of global witch...
Critics of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan were profiled by Turkish diplomats in Budapest in line with an ongoing witch hunt carried out by the...
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