Police chief who was purged over Gülen links beaten on street in Samsun

https://youtu.be/lGjvqWTM7e8 G.E., a former police chief in Samsun who was dismissed over alleged links to the Gülen movement following a failed coup attempt last year,...

Turkey’s PACE member Kürkçü forcibly taken to court to testify

Ertuğrul Kürkçü, a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe (PACE) and a deputy of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democracy Party (HDP), was...

Workers prohibited from speaking in Kurdish at İstanbul construction site

A construction company in İstanbul has sent a letter to one of its subcontracting firms saying that no language other than Turkish should be...

Former intel chief of Turkish military calls for use of MOSSAD tactics to kill...

İsmail Hakkı Pekin, a former intelligence chief of the Turkish General Staff, has suggested that Turkey make use of tactics it used against Armenian...

Turkish mosques in northwest Germany receive hate letters

Three Turkish-operated mosques in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia have received letters with Islamophobic messages from unknown sources, the Gazete Duvar news website...

This time house of an Alevi family in Turkey’s Manisa province marked with red...

Amid tension arising from the marking of Alevi houses in a neighborhood in the province of Malatya, a red cross mark was painted on...

Thousands gather in Diyarbakır for pro-Kurdish HDP’s ‘Conscience, Justice and Democracy’ meeting

Thousands of the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) supporters have gathered for “Conscience, Justice and Democracy” meeting in Station Square of Diyarbakır province on...

Turkish gov’t detains 37 people over ‘promoting terrorism’ on social media

Turkish government has detained 37 more people across Turkey on Wednesday over allegedly taking part in an online smear campaign of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers'...

Truckload of manure dumped near CHP ‘March of Justice’ camp in Düzce

An unidentified person dumped a truckload of manure near Turkey@s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) “March for Justice” camp in Düzce on Tuesday...

Turkey arrests pro-Kurdish mayor of Mersin’s Akdeniz district

Mehmet Fazıl Türk, co-Mayor of Mersin's Akdeniz district from pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP), was arrested by a Turkish court on Wednesday with charge...

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