MHP youth wing chairman says they will take up arms if necessary
Olcay Kılavuz, president of Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) youth wing Grey Wolves (Ülkü Ocakları), said on Sunday that they don’t want tensions in Turkey,...
Pro-gov’t TV commentator: Turkish pop star’s song signals coup attempt in fall
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Ömür Varol, a commentator for the pro-gov’t Beyaz TV, argued on Friday that due to its lyrics and name, Turkey’s iconic pop singer Sezen Aksu’s...
Rights group: Turkish prison guards threatened with jail when they refuse to torture inmates
Professor Şebnem Korur Fincancı, Founding President of the Turkish Human Rights Foundation (TİHV), said on Sunday that some Turkish prison guards who refused to...
Erdoğan accuses main opposition of siding with terror groups in ‘no’ campaign
Turkey’s autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Wednesday that the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) is acting in line with terrorist groups...
Detained mother of five children released by court with 50.000 TL bail
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Nagehan G., who was detained as she was visiting his arrested husband in Sincan Prision in Ankara together with her five children, was released...
Turkish gov’t detains 11 more people for opposing Afrin operation on social media
Turkish government has detained at least 11 more people over their critical stance against Turkish military operation in Afrin region of northern Syria on Thursday. In...
Turkey’s autocratic President Erdoğan’s spying, profiling expands in Norway
Two more Norwegian NGOs with links to Turkish government were involved in what appears to be illegal profiling and surveillance of critics and opponents...
Turkey’s Interior Minister Soylu says he won’t resign over photo with cemetery attacker
Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has said he would not resign over a photo he posed for with Murat Alp, a participant in a...
Erdoğan’s long arm reaches to Norway, targeting critics of Turkish government
Turkey has escalated its witch hunt persecution on critics to Norway using government institutions, quasi-official parallel structures and affiliated NGOs, a report released by Stockholm...
Turkey’s Erdoğan once again sues CHP leader Kılıçdaroğlu for TL 250,000 in non-pecuniary damages
Autocratic Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Thursday once again filed a lawsuit against Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu...
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Pushbacks of Turkish asylum seekers from Greece to Turkey: Violation of the principle of...
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