Erdoğan’s neo-nationalist ally announces support for him in presidential runoff
Doğu Perinçek, the founder and chairman of the neo-nationalist Homeland Party (VP), has announced that his party will throw its weight behind President Recep...
Turkey sends officials accused of ill-treatment, rendition to UN session reviewing torture record
The Turkish government has sent two officials accused of ill-treatment and involvement in extraordinary renditions to the 80th session of the United Nations Committee...
Prosecutor declines to pursue case against gendarmes who allegedly threw refugees into Evros River
The Edirne Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has declined to pursue a case against gendarmes who allegedly threw refugees into a river after they were...
14 female inmates in Ankara prison not released despite completion of sentences
Fourteen female inmates at Sincan Women’s Prison in Ankara are not being released despite having served their sentences due to decisions on the part...
4 former officers on trial for Gülen links detained while trying to flee to...
Four former military officers who are standing trial in Turkey due to their alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement were captured on Turkey’s...
Turkish football star Hakan Şükür’s father given jail sentence over Gülen links: report
The father of Turkey’s best-known footballer, ex-international Hakan Şükür, has been given a prison sentence of three years, 45 days on charges of aiding...
HDP deputy to Turkish government: How can ISIS bring Yazidi slaves to Ankara?
In a parliamentary question to Vice President Fuat Oktay, pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Feleknas Uca questioned how the Islamic State in Iraq...
Military vehicle kills 7-year-old boy in SE Turkey
A 7-year-old boy was hit and killed by a Turkish military vehicle in the predominantly Kurdish-populated Şırnak province in southeastern Turkey, Turkish Minute reported,...
IOM calls on int’l community to strengthen efforts to reach millions in quake region
António Vitorino, director general of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), has called on the international community to increase its efforts to ensure aid...
Turkish court acquits Bloomberg journalists over article on lira fal
A Turkish court on Friday acquitted two Bloomberg reporters of trying to sabotage the economy with an article about the currency crisis of 2018,...
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