Turkish Parliament approves troop deployment to Qatar amid diplomatic crisis in Gulf
The Turkish Parliament on Wednesday approved legislation allowing its troops to be deployed to a military base in Qatar amid a diplomatic crisis in...
Afghanistan’s intelligence agency releases four abducted teachers of Turkish schools, report
Afghanistan's intelligence agency has released Turkish teachers Önder Akkuşci, Yunus Demirci, Yılmaz Aytan and an Afghan based teacher Masso0d Wardak who are working for...
Bodies found in Aegean Sea show volume of cruelty and oppression in Turkey
While trying to escape from Turkey to Mytilene Island of Greece, a family with three children, who disappeared in the Aegean Sea, were found...
Grand jury in US approves arrest warrants for former Turkish Minister Çağlayan, 3 others...
A grand jury in the US has approved the arrest warrants for former Turkish Economy Minister Mehmet Zafer Çağlayan, former state-run Halkbank General Manager Süleyman...
Erdoğan’s fury against the Netherlands stems from his frustration over ‘historic rally’
Finally, the reason for Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's unending fury against the Netherlands has been understood. According to a report in a...
In Kenya, mystery and silence over Gülen abduction
How did a foreign citizen disappear from Kenya’s police headquarters and end up under arrest in Turkey, despite a court order banning his extradition?
A...
Baghdad’s call for sanctions to KRG finds limited response from int’l community
The call for Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to halt flights to the Iraqi Kurdish region as reaction to the independence referendum held by...
Germany denies Turkey’s judicial assistance request in Kurdish singer and activist Ferhat Tunç’s case
Official correspondence from Turkey’s consulate general in Frankfurt to the Justice Ministry in Ankara has revealed that a German prosecutor denied a request for...
45 people detained on Cyprus while trying to escape persecution of Erdoğan regime in...
Forty-five people, including 17 children and nine women, were detained by security forces on Saturday on a boat off the Turkish Republic of Northern...
Radio Sweden exposes how Turkish gov’t tracking down regime critics in Sweden
Sweden's official radio station, Radio Sweden, has documented that Turkey's government is trying to identify and track down supporters of the opposition Gülen Movement...
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