Turkish President Erdoğan’s ultranationalist ally threatens İYİ Party’s Akşener: My final warning
Devlet Bahçeli, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's ultranationalist ally and chairman of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), has threatened right-wing opposition İYİ Party leader...
Hate speech against Gülen movement escalates as pro-Erdoğan propagandist calls for extermination
Journalist Fatih Tezcan, a pro-Erdoğan propagandist, on Tuesday said on a live YouTube broadcast that followers of the Gülen movement should be massacred right...
Turkish Airlines stops distributing ‘Heroes’ kits on overseas flights
Following a series of detentions across Turkey of people wearing T-shirts bearing the word “Hero,” an alleged symbol of support for last year’s coup...
Erdoğanist university rector: Shaking hands with women ‘more horrific than holding fire’
Professor Mustafa Talk Gönüllü, the rector of Adıyaman University, who was appointed by Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has claimed that shaking hands...
Pro-Erdoğan gang leader says LGBT founded by Fethullah Gülen
Sedat Peker, a staunch supporter of Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and a convicted gang leader, said on Monday that US-based Turkish Islamic...
Four ODTÜ students arrested over placard ‘insulting’ Erdoğan
An Ankara court on Wednesday arrested four students from Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) in Ankara for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan by carrying...
Turkey’s Erdoğanist columnist: Bitcoin ‘a secret communication tool’ used by Gülen followers
Pro-government Yeni Akit newspaper's staunchly Erdoğanist columnist Abdurrahman Dilipak alleged in his column that Bitcoin is "a secret communication tool" used by the alleged...
Erdoğan says Turkish people studying in West become voluntary agents
Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said people who go to study in Western countries assimilate into their culture and become voluntary agents...
Child worker accounts reveal plight of Syrian refugees in Turkey
The personal accounts of child workers who work 12 hours a day for a fraction of the minimum wage while having to endure social...
Turkey’s Jews condemn prosecutor’s remarks as tantamount to hate speech
Turkey’s Jewish community has condemned a statement by Çankırı Chief Public Prosecutor Hüsnü Aldemir, who likened the Gülen movement to a Jewish organization during...
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