Pro-Erdoğan journalist tracked Turkish political dissidents while using fake name and address in Denmark
Abdurrahman Şimşek, news coordinator for the Sabah newspaper, which is aligned with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has been "mapping" political dissidents from...
Pro-Erdoğan Turkish-Dutch media funded with Dutch subsidies
Dutch-Turkish media groups that support Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan were supported for years with funding from the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture...
Lawyer shares photos of suspicious individuals around İnandı’s car, says former minister met him...
Taalaygul Toktakunova, the attorney for the family of educator Orhan İnandı, who is allegedly being held against his will in the Turkish Embassy in...
Turkish FM Çavuşoğlu says US will learn how to talk to Turkey
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on Saturday said the US has to learn how to talk to Turkey, underlining that old habits must be...
Halkbank’s Deputy CEO Arrested For Conspiring To Evade US Sanctions Against Iran And Other...
Mehmet Hakan Atilla, Deputy CEO of state largest lender Halkbank, was arrested by the agents of Federal Information Bureau (FBI) at John F. Kennedy...
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...
ECtHR faults Turkey for ‘extensive interpretation’ of criminal code terror article
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) stated in a decision on July 10 that Article 220/7 of the Turkish Criminal Code (TCK) governing...
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...
Germany, Netherlands announce they will not allow Turkish politicians to campaign for elections
The governments of Germany and the Netherlands have announced that they will not allow Turkish politicians to campaign within their borders for parliamentary and...
US senators introduce bill demanding Turkey end ‘unjust detention of Brunson’
Six US senators introduced bipartisan legislation on Thursday to restrict loans from international financial institutions to Turkey "until the Turkish government ends the unjust...
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