Turkish Atheism Association to close down due to pressure

Turkey’s first atheist nongovernmental organization is preparing to dissolve itself after being targeted by the pro-government media and due to pressure on its members,...

Female student who ‘insulted’ Atatürk arrested by Turkish court

A 21-year-old female university student who was detained for “insulting” Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, was arrested by a...

Armenian-Turkish lawmaker targeted in newspaper ads for anti-war stance

Armenian-Turkish lawmaker Garo Paylan was targeted in newspaper ads published by the nationalist Center for Eurasian Strategic Studies (ASAM) think tank on Friday for...

Erdoğan criticizes opposition, using ethnic and religious slur

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan resorted to discriminatory language when criticizing the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) during a speech at the Union of...

Twitter’s lawyer in Turkey tweets hate speech against Gülen movement

Lawyer Gönenç Gürkaynak, who represents Twitter in Turkey, used hate speech against supporters of the Gülen movement in a series of tweets on Saturday,...

Nationalist opposition leader urges refugees in Turkey to go to Gaza to fight Israelis

Meral Akşener, leader of the nationalist İYİ (Good) Party, has called on all the refugees in Turkey, especially Syrians, to go to Gaza and...

Opposition MP warns of rising tensions similar to 1955 pogrom in Turkey

Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a leading human rights advocate and deputy from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party), expressed alarm at rising...

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...

AKP Deputy Külünk accused of giving money to Turkish gang in Germany to buy...

Metin Külünk, a deputy from Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) led by autocratic Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has been accused in...
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