Turkey’s Erdoğan to embark on new Africa tour targeting Gülen movement
Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will make a five-day official tour of four African countries — Algeria, Mauritania, Senegal and Mali — starting...
Turkish gov’t says operations targeting Gülen movement could extend to US
Turkey’s presidential spokesman İbrahim Kalın said during a press conference on Friday that the Turkish government would continue its global manhunt for followers of...
COMMENTARY — Erdoğan gov’t attacks UN for raising rights violations in Turkey
By Abdullah Bozkurt
As the free world turns up the heat on the repressive regime of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Turkey with increased vigilance...
Erdoğanist gang leader says will hang all people linked with Gülen movement
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Sedat Peker, a convicted gang leader and staunch supporter of Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said they will hang all people linked to...
Doctors leaving Turkey should be stripped of citizenship: Turkish mayor
Taner İşbir, a district mayor from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Çorum, has called on the Turkish government to revoke the...
Turkish police torture two university personnel for weeks in Antalya over their alleged links...
Sedat Göçen and Ahmet Gödük, two former staff members of the International Antalya University, which was closed by a government decree issued under emergency...
Famous thespian’s arts center damaged in alleged arson attack
An arts center in İstanbul’s Kadıköy district belonging to famous thespian Müjdat Gezen was damaged in a suspected arson attack on Sunday night, according...
Black humour: Erdoğan says no group’s freedom has deteriorated in 16 years of AKP...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Sunday that the freedom of no individual or an ethnic or religious group had deteriorated in Turkey...
12-year-old diagnosed with cancer amid grief for jailed father in Turkey over alleged Gülen...
Muhammed Eray Özkul, the 12-year-old son of the Zonguldak-based former police officer Ender Özkul, has been diagnosed with cancer after his father was jailed...
Pro-gov’t daily calls German police operations on Turkey’s spying imams ‘Merkelist terror’
The front page of pro-government Star Daily on Thursday bore a headline saying “Merkelist Terror” and criticized German police investigations into allegations of Turkish...
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