Erdoğan says US threats and blackmail against Turkey will only hurt itself
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday targeted the US, which has imposed sanctions on Turkey over the continued detention and trial of an...
Researcher, teacher face legal action on charges of blasphemy, insulting Atatürk
A research assistant at Adnan Menderes University in Turkey's western province of Aydın and an imam-hatip schoolteacher in the southern Turkish province of Antalya...
Armenians, Syrian refugees and Greeks top list of groups targeted by Turkish media in...
Armenians, Syrian refugees in Turkey and Greeks are at the top of the list of groups targeted with hate speech by the Turkish media...
Another Syrian refugee falls victim to apparent hate crime
Another Syrian refugee in Turkey has become a victim of a hate crime as an unidentified young man who was collecting trash was assaulted...
Syrian businesses and homes attacked in İzmir amid increasing anti-migrant sentiment in Turkey
A group of locals attacked the houses, workplaces and cars of Syrian refugees in İzmir on Thursday evening at a time when anti-migrant sentiment...
Most religion-based hate crimes in Turkey targeted Alevis, Christians in 2022: report
Alevis and Christians were targeted in the vast majority of religion-based hate crimes recorded in Turkey in 2022, according to a report by the...
Teenage Syrian refugee killed amid wave of racist attacks in Turkey
Ahmet Handan El Naif, a 17-year-old Syrian refugee worker, was killed in Antalya on Tuesday as racist attacks on Syrians have been spreading across...
Polling place at Diyanet mosque in Amsterdam accused of pressuring voters
The Amsterdam municipality visited a polling station at a Turkish mosque in the Dutch capital after the mosque was accused of pressuring voters with...
Turkish Deputy PM Bozdağ says German Foreign Minister Gabriel has ‘inferiority complex’
Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdağ has targeted Germany’s foreign minister Sigmar Gabirel after he offered damning criticism of Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip...
EU’s counter-terrorism chief: EU does not deem Gülen movement as ‘terror organisation’
The European Union does not share Turkish government's view that the Gülen movement, which has been inspired by the teachings of the US-based Turkish-Muslim...
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The May 2023 re-election of...