Turkish university cancels former Turkish PM Davutoğlu’s conference

İstanbul’s Marmara University has surprisingly cancelled a conference that was to feature Ahmet Davutoğlu, former prime minister of Turkey, Hürriyet reported on Thursday. Davutoğlu was...

Turkey’s Erdoğan says Germany obsessed with journalist Deniz Yücel

Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Germany has become obsessed with journalist Deniz Yücel, jailed in Turkey since Feb. 14, underlining that he...

Erdoğan’s advisor: NATO behind all coups, Turkey must review membership

Yalçın Topçu, a key advisor of Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, on Monday said NATO was behind all coups in Turkey, stating that...

Lawyer for Kurdish family massacred in Konya receiving death threats

Abdurrahman Karabulut, the lawyer for a Kurdish family, seven of whose members were murdered in the central Turkish province of Konya last Friday, has...

Security guards of Turkey’s Erdoğan again beat protesters during NYC speech

https://youtu.be/_HrEtXVAaBQ The private security detail of Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Thursday beat up protesters who have allegedly caused a disturbance during a...

Family-wide persecution: Turkish gov’t keeps 7 members of Demir Family in prison over alleged...

A Turkish building contractor, who live in Fethiye district of Muğla province and was denaturalized as part of the government’s post-coup witch hunt of...

COMMENTARY — Erdoğan has ruined the lives of 1 million people in Turkey

By Abdullah Bozkurt The criminal investigations, prosecutions and trials in politically motivated cases on trumped-up terrorism and coup plotting charges have ruined the lives of...

Jailed journalist Altan: They can lock me up, but not my imagination

Prominent Turkish novelist and journalist Ahmet Altan, who has been in pretrial detention since Sept. 23 of last year, said in an essay published...

Islamist deputy of Turkey’s ruling AKP: Syria to be 2nd Vietnam for America

Metin Külünk, a deputy of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) under the leadership of autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has slammed the US...

Nobody hurt by emergency rule except terrorists, claims Turkey’s autocratic President

Nobody has suffered from post-coup emergency rule (OHAL) except for terrorist organizations and their members, Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Sunday. Speaking...

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