Turkey’s Afrin operation increases attacks on Turkish communities in Germany

The Turkish military offensive in the Kurdish-populated Afrin province of northwestern Syria has increased attacks on Turkish communities in Germany, Deutsche Welle (DW) reported. According...

CSU leader Seehofer demands EU cut financial aid to Turkey

Horst Seehofer, leader of the Christian Democratic Union’s (CDU) Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), has asked Brussels to cut off European...

Turkish gov’t seized 232 Gülen-linked schools in 21 countries since coup attempt

A total of 232 schools run by the faith-based Gülen movement across 21 countries have been taken over by the Turkish government since a...

Candidate for German chancellor Schulz says will not be blackmailed by Erdoğan

Social Democratic Party (SPD) leader and candidate for German chancellor Martin Schulz on Saturday strongly criticized Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan over human...

Basel police officer from Turkish origin arrested for spying for Erdoğan

Swiss police has arrested a Basel-based traffic police on suspicion of spying for Turkish officials, reported by Basler Zeitung newspaper on Friday. According to the...

Turkish gov’t detains 26 more people for allegedly ‘promoting terror’ in social media

Turkish government has detained 26 more people across Turkey on Tuesday for allegedly taking part in alleged "smear campaign" against Turkey's military operation in...

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...

Kurdish woman detained at İstanbul airport after extradition from Norway

Gülizar Taşdemir (42), rumored by the pro-government media to have been a former “aide” in the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), was taken into...

Turkey pushed allies to soften NATO statement alleging state hijacking of passenger plane by...

Turkey pushed NATO allies into watering down an official reaction to the forced landing by Belarus of a passenger plane and the detention of...

Jailed NASA scientist Gölge says he is being held hostage by Turkish government

Dr. Serkan Gölge, a NASA scientist who was sentenced to seven years, six months in prison in February due to his alleged links to...
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