Syrian refugees to be sent home within two years, main opposition party leader says
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the leader of Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), said on Wednesday in a speech in the southeastern Turkish province of...
Germany says Turkey sought extradition of 53 people, not 4,500 as Erdoğan claims
While Turkey claimed that they sought the extradition of 4,500 suspects linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) from Germany, the German Justice...
New research shows Turkey’s purge destroyed lives of 21,000 health care workers
More than 21,000 health care professionals including doctors, nurses, medical professors, technicians and hospital staff have thus far been dismissed from public and private...
AKP deputy urges Turkey to investigate spying activities by Germany
Amid tensions between Turkey and Germany over spying imams, ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy Metin Külünk urged prosecutors to investigate possible spying...
Bharara questions Putin’s role in Erdoğan regime’s ties to Flynn
Preet Bharara, the former US attorney who used to oversee the case of jailed Iranian-Turkish gold trader Reza Zarrab, said the Russians, who had...
PACE president on HDP’s Demirtaş: The place of parliamentarians must not be in prison
Liliane Maury Pasquier, president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), has released a statement on the sentencing to prison of...
Georgia detains a Turkish educator at request of Turkish PM Yıldırım during his visit
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Georgia has detained Mustafa Emre Çabuk, a Turkish educator who has lived in Georgia and has served for Georgian people for last 15 years on Wednesday...
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,...
Turkish court requests red notices for journalists Can Dündar and İlhan Tanır
A Turkish court on Tuesday requested Interpol Red Notices for critical journalists Can Dündar and İlhan Tanır, both living in exile, on espionage charges,...
BBC reveals Turkey faced just 15 attacks from Afrin, not 700
A report by the BBC on Tuesday disproved a widely held Turkish claim voiced by the highest echelons of power in Ankara that there...
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