Pro-Erdoğan journalist suggests killing family members of jailed Gülen followers in Turkey
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Journalist Cem Küçük, a staunch supporter of Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, suggested during a live TV program on Monday that Turkish intelligence...
Turkish city decides to change name of ‘NATO Yolu Street’ as reaction to NATO
The name of "NATO Yolu Street" in Zile district of Turkey's Tokat province was changed to "Ata Street" by the Assembly of Zile Municipality...
Report: Turkish gov’t twists peace declaration into an act of terrorism
Turkish government has sought to turn the tables on 148 academics who are facing trial on charges of terrorism for signing a 2016 declaration...
Turkey’s Erdoğan issues a veiled threat of killing each and every Jew amid Jerusalem...
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Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has issued a veiled threat on Monday of killing each and every Jew with a shocking reference to apocalyptic...
Senegalese students worried over transfer of Gülen-affiliated schools to Turkey’s Islamist Maarif Foundation
Parents of Senegalese children attending schools run by followers of the Gülen (Hizmet) movement, which was inspired by moderate views of US-based Turkish Muslim...
Turkey’s Erdoğan: Israel is a terrorist state, Trump’s decision is null and void
Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday continued to criticize US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, saying Israel is...
New York Times: Turkey no safe zone for foreign political dissidents
The murder of Syrian mother-daughter activists Halla and Orouba Barakat in İstanbul highlights a growing fear among foreign political dissidents, especially women, that they aren’t...
Policeman suspended by Turkish gov’t reportedly dies while working as construction worker
Lokman Keleş, a Konya-based police officer who was suspended as part of the government’s post-coup purge of state institutions, died after falling from a...
Turkey’s Erdoğan claims Western media smearing him as they did Atatürk
Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Saturday has claimed the Western media have been negatively portraying him as they did in the past...
Turkish asylum seekers in Greece tell of lives full of fear in Erdoğan’s Turkey
German media outlet Deutsche Welle (DW) has written that "fear and uncertainty has been spreading in Turkey for years," as it reported on Turks' reflections...
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