German Chancellor Merkel says Turkey abuses Interpol warrants

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday criticized Turkey’s use of an Interpol arrest warrant to detain a German writer Doğan Akhanlı in Spain, telling...

Erdoğan reiterates call on Turks in Germany not to vote for ‘anti-Turkey’ parties

Despite reactions from Berlin “not to interfere in internal affairs,” Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday reiterated his call on Turks living...

Man detained after attacking Atatürk statue with hammer in Turkey’s Diyarbakır

https://youtu.be/axXo7uAc99E İbrahim Yeşil, 30, was detained by police on Saturday after he attacked a statue of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey, in...

Lawyers: Assassination accusations in Turkey’s Erdoğanist media aim to slander Gülen movement

The lawyers of US-based Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen said on Saturday that news reports in the pro-government media accusing Gülen movement followers of...

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 arrests jailed journalist Karayeğen’s daughter, aged 23, over “terror” charges

Zeliha Esra Karayeğen, the 23-year-old daughter of jailed journalist İbrahim Karayeğen was put in pre-trial arrest on charge of membership to a terrorist organization...

Jailed police chief Atayün’s two children detained by Turkish police

Two children of Anadolu Atayün, a former legendary police chief who was jailed in wake of the corruption and bribery scandals on December 17-25,...

Erdoğan tells Turks in Germany not to vote for ‘anti-Turkish parties’, Berlin reacts harshly

Amid tensions between Berlin and Ankara, Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has told Turks living in Germany not to vote for parties treating...

Erdoğan’s most favorite columnist: Vatican uses ‘evicted jinns in intelligence services’

Radical Islamist Yeni Akit daily's columnist Abdurrahman Dilipak, who is knwon as one of the most favorite columnist of Turkey's autocratic President and Justice...

Minister son-in-law of Turkey’s Erdoğan: I would strangle Gülen supporters wherever I see them

https://youtu.be/1OJZU71gWB0 Addressing university students being sent abroad on scholarships, autocratic President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s son-in-law and Energy and Natural Resources Minister Berat Albayrak...

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