1.77 mln investigations launched in Turkey on terrorism allegations from 2016 to 2021

A total of 1,768,000 investigations were launched into people in Turkey on allegations of membership in an armed terrorist organization between 2016 and 2021,...

Kılıçdaroğlu vows to reinstate ‘Peace Academics’ if elected

Leader of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) and presidential candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has promised to reinstate all academics who were fired from...

Businessman illegally brought to Turkey from Iraq arrested over Gülen links 

A Turkish businessman who was illegally brought to Turkey from Iraq by the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) has been arrested on terrorism charges due...

PACE rapporteur calls on Turkish political parties to avoid negative stances against refugees, migrants...

Birgir Thórarinsson, rapporteur for the crisis facing Afghan refugees from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s (PACE) Committee for Migration, Refugees and...

MP from main opposition resigns due to lack of Roma parliamentary candidates from his...

Özcan Purçu, a lawmaker from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), has resigned from the party due to the lack of parliamentary candidates...

Drug traffickers use Turkey’s citizenship laws to evade trial in Europe: report

Europe’s most-wanted drug traffickers are increasingly evading capture by becoming Turkish citizens, VICE World News reported, citing European law enforcement officials. European law enforcement officials, speaking...

Greek journalists file criminal complaint against Turkish officials who destroyed their equipment

Greek journalists, whose equipment was damaged by employees of Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) while they were covering the aftermath of massive earthquakes that...

AKP supporter threatens opposition party voters on social media amid upcoming elections 

A man identified as Yusuf Ziya K. in a video posted on social media threatened to target government critics and opposition party voters if the ruling...

2 more Kurdish journalists sentenced to prison on terrorist propaganda charges

Journalists Mehmet Güleş and İsmail Çoban have been handed down prison sentences by Turkish courts on conviction of disseminating terrorist propaganda, according to media...

 MSF warns of psychological consequences of quakes in southern Turkey 

Earthquakes that struck southern Turkey in early February have led to less visible but significant psychological consequences for survivors, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), also...

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