EP’s Panzeri: EU should use all financial, commercial instruments to push Turkey to end...
Pier Antonio Panzeri, Chair of the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI), has stated that European Union (EU) should use all the financial and...
615 Turkish civil servants have applied for asylum in Germany
German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere on Monday said 615 Turkish civil servants have asked for political asylum in Germany since a failed coup...
Ankara, Moscow finalize deal on S-400 missiles as US firm to sell Turkey air-to-air...
Turkey and Russia have signed a $2,5 billion agreement for Moscow to supply Ankara with an S-400 missile defense system, while the US arms...
19 including 15 guards of Turkey’s Erdoğan indicted for attacking protesters in US
Indictments have been issued for 19 people, including 15 members of Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s security detail, for attacking protesters in Washington...
Georgia rejects asylum application of Gülen school teacher
Georgian authorities have rejected an asylum application made by Turkish teacher Mustafa Emre Çabuk, who has been under a three-month extradition arrest since May...
Jailed Halkbank executive wants 15 Turkish witnesses to testify in Zarrab case in US
Mehmet Hakan Atilla, a deputy general manager of Turkish public lender Halkbank, who was arrested in the US in March 2017 on charges of...
Turkish businessman abducted in Baku on Thursday put in prison in İstanbul on Friday
Turkish businessman Mustafa Ceyhan, who was abducted by unknown people in Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan, on Thursday over his alleged affiliation with...
German Chancellor Merkel says Turkey abuses Interpol warrants
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday criticized Turkey’s use of an Interpol arrest warrant to detain a German writer Doğan Akhanlı in Spain, telling...
Journalists, politicians protest in Berlin after attack on exiled Turkish journalist
Dozens of journalists and politicians protested in Berlin on Friday against a recent attack on Erk Acarer, a Turkish journalist critical of President Recep...
Gülen movement-linked Turkish woman dies in Greece as she waits to join husband in...
Esma Uludağ, a 35-year-old Turkish woman who fled to Greece from the persecution of the Islamist Turkish government led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,...
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