Turkish gov’t detains 29 people for depositing money in now-closed Bank Asya

The Turkish government detained 29 people out of 59 warrants issued in Ankara on Wednesday for depositing money in private lender Bank Asya, which...

Pro-Kurdish HDP’s Demirtaş: Europe has abandoned Turkey’s democratic forces

Selahattin Demirtaş, the former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) who has been behind bars since November 2016 and is running as...
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COMMENTARY — Erdoğan made Turkey’s Kurdish problem worse

By Abdullah Bozkurt Having deliberately undermined two initiatives to address Turkey’s longstanding Kurdish problem during its 16 years of rule, the government of President Recep...

ECtHR fines Turkey 70,000 euros in two separate cases

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Tuesday fined Turkey a total of 70,000 euros in two cases that were brought to the...

Video footage shows elderly woman crushed to death by Turkish military vehicle in Diyarbakır

Recently released security camera footage shows how an 85-year-old woman was crushed to death by an armored military vehicle on a road closed to...

Lawyers for HDP’s jailed presidential candidate Demirtaş apply to Turkey’s top court for his...

Lawyers for Selahattin Demirtaş, the jailed presidential candidate from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), on Tuesday applied to Turkey’s Constitutional Court for his...

Turkish election board moves ballot boxes in Kurdish provinces, prompting fears of fraud

Citing “security reasons,” Turkey’s Supreme Election Board (YSK) decided on Sunday to move ballot boxes in at least 19 provinces from which the pro-Kurdish...
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Turkish gov’t detains at least 59 military officers over alleged links to Gülen movement

The Turkish government detained at least 59 military officers across Turkey on Tuesday as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt targeting alleged members...

Bodies of pregnant woman and young girl found on Evros River

The bodies of a pregnant woman, around 35 years of age, and a young girl, around 10, were found in different spots on the...

Turkish President Erdoğan: George and Hans cannot defeat us

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accused foreign powers of trying to “weaken” the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) after the Turkish government criticized...

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