CHP’s Aksünger: US to fine Turkey $10 bln over Atilla case
Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Deputy Chairman Erdal Aksünger on Tuesday said the US will fine Turkey $10 billion over the case...
Kenyan law associations urge authorities to prevent forcible return of missing refugees to Turkey
Two prominent Kenyan law associations called on authorities to investigate the abduction of four Turkish refugees and to prevent their forcible return to Turkey,...
German Foreign Ministry: Kavala’s continued imprisonment raises serious doubts about validity of rule of...
Bärbel Kofler, human rights policy and humanitarian assistance commissioner at the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, issued a press release on Sunday to mark...
European Parliament calls for Turkish military’s withdrawal from Afrin
The European Parliament have approved a joint motion calling on Turkish troops to withdraw from Afrin province of northwestern Syria.
Before the vote, a joint...
Kurdish journalist dies in Turkish airstrikes in Syria
Kurdish-Syrian journalist Îsam Hesen Ebdullah died in airstrikes conducted by the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) on the bases of Kurdish militants in Syria, Turkish media...
New York Times: Turkey no safe zone for foreign political dissidents
The murder of Syrian mother-daughter activists Halla and Orouba Barakat in İstanbul highlights a growing fear among foreign political dissidents, especially women, that they aren’t...
Turkey’s captured MİT officials says killings of 3 Kurdish women in Paris approved by...
Two top Turkish intelligence officials who were captured by the PKK have reportedly revealed that the killings of three Kurdish women in Paris planned by...
Former CHP deputy Erdem’s incarceration raised at human rights meeting boycotted by Turkey
A Turkish journalist living in the US brought up the incarceration on terrorism charges of former Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Eren Erdem at...
German minister hopeful for deal with Ankara to deport unsuccessful asylum seekers
German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has said her government is working at achieving closer cooperation with Ankara for the deportation of Turkish nationals with...
Washington police release video of 8 more Erdoğan bodyguards wanted for attack
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The Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department released a video on Saturday of eight more “persons of interest” believed to be in Turkey's autocratic President...
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