Courage in Journalism Award given to jailed Kurdish journalist Zehra Doğan
The Washington-based International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) gave one of this year’s Courage in Journalism Awards to Kurdish journalist and painter Zehra Doğan, who...
Int’l organizations decry Turkish court’s verdicts for Zaman journalists, calling them ‘perversion of justice’
International organizations including the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch (HRW), Reporters Without Borders (RSF), the Committee...
Kurdish journalist/artist Zehra Doğan sends letter of gratitude to Banksy from Turkish prison
Imprisoned Kurdish-Turkish artist and journalist Zehra Doğan has expressed her gratitude for a tribute by a painter in New York as well as revealing...
Turkey’s Erdoğanist Maarif Foundation has seized 97 overseas schools affiliated with Gülen movement
Birol Akgün, the head of Turkey's Maarif Foundation, stated in an interview to a mouthpiece media outlet of the Turkish government led by President...
Greek FM Kammenos: Erdoğan ordered arrest of Greek soldiers in Turkey
Turkey’s arrest of two Greek soldiers who strayed across the border in March 2018 and who have been detained ever since took place on...
Turkish Cypriot journalist, his newspaper file suit against Turkey’s Erdoğan
Şener Levent and Turkish Cypriot publishing company Afrika have filed a lawsuit against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for instigating attacks on the newspaper...
US delegation to Turkey not eager to talk about pastor Brunson: report
A US congressional delegation that went to Turkey on Monday to persuade Ankara to abandon plans to purchase a Russian missile defense system in...
Iran sanctions-busting Turkish-Iranian gold trader Zarrab seen in New York sushi restaurant
Reza Zarrab, a Turkish-Iranian millionaire gold trader who turned witness in the New York trial of a Turkish banker charged with evading US sanctions on...
Report: German intelligence ponders putting pro-Erdoğan DİTİB under surveillance
German intelligence is reportedly examining whether to put the pro-Erdoğan Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DİTİB), which has been at the center of a series...
Germany’s arms exports to Turkey in drastic fall since Afrin occupation
Germany’s arms exports to Turkey have dropped from nearly 10 million euros to less than 1 million euros in the aftermath of the Turkish...
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