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...
Turkey’s official Friday sermon glorifies ‘armed jihad’
A sermon sent to Turkey’s 90,000 mosques for Friday prayers by Turkish state religious authorities took as its theme the importance of jihad. “Engaging in...
Turkish President Erdoğan says his Kurdish rival Demirtaş deserving of death penalty for role...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at a Sunday rally criticized jailed pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) presidential candidate Selahattin Demirtaş, saying he would have...
Gülen-inspired JWF reiterates its call for int’l community to establish a committee to investigate...
The Journalist and Writers Foundation (JWF), affiliated with the Gülen movement, that has been widely and systematically persecuted by Turkish government, has called inter-governmental organisations...
Rights defender faces anti-terror probe for speaking out against rights abuses in Turkey
An anti-terror investigation was launched against Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a physician, columnist and the former head of Association for Human Rights and Solidarity for...
Police officer purged by Turkish government commits suicide in İstanbul house
Durmuş Ali Çetin, a former police officer who was dismissed from his job by government decree 10 months ago, was found dead at his...
Turkey bans Kurdish footballer Deniz Naki from professional football
Weeks after reporting that his car was shot at on a German motorway, midfielder Deniz Naki, the Amed SK player who is a supporter...
Turkish authorities remove 927 Syrian refugees from Denizli district due to public outrage
A total of 927 Syrians have been forced to move from the Kale district of Denizli province in western Turkey to the Denizli city...
Turkey’s pro-gov’t daily claims rights activists were plotting coup attempt on Büyükada
One of the staunchly pro-government dailies in Turkey, Güneş, claimed on Friday that a group of human rights activists were plotting a coup attempt...
Turkey’s pro-Kurdish HDP Co-chair Buldan: Interior minister threatened me on phone
Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chair Pervin Buldan has claimed Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu threatened her, telling her that HDP officials no longer...
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