Turkey bans Kurdish footballer Deniz Naki from professional football

Weeks after reporting that his car was shot at on a German motorway, midfielder Deniz Naki, the Amed SK player who is a supporter...
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Armenian graves desecrated amid climate of hostility towards minority groups in Turkey

Some of the graves in the Armenian cemetery of either the Surp Pırgiç or Karasun Manug church foundation in the Sincan district of Ankara...

Twitter suspends more than 7,000 state-linked Turkish accounts

Twitter has suspended 7.340 fake and compromised state-linked accounts in Turkey that were targeting domestic audiences and promoting narratives favorable to the ruling Justice...

Turkey’s Erdoğan rebukes former President Gül for decree remarks

Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has scolded former President Abdullah Gül for his call on the government to revise a new state of...

Turkish consul in Australia wrote a scandalous letter to members of Parliament

In a scathing attack on Australian institutions and nationals of Turkish origin as part of Turkish government campaign of persecution and harassment of critics...

Black humour: Erdoğan says no group’s freedom has deteriorated in 16 years of AKP...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Sunday that the freedom of no individual or an ethnic or religious group had deteriorated in Turkey...

Turkey’s ruling AKP’s Aybek posing with MP5 machine gun released

Mehmet Aybek, a member of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) youth branch, who was detained by police following he shared a photo...

Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency secretly films businessman İpek in London

Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency (AA) has secretly filmed Turkish businessman Akın İpek, one of the targets of the Turkish government led by President...

COMMENTARY — The case of Turkish journalist İbrahim Karayeğen under torture and abuse

By Abdullah Bozkurt Among all the 250 journalists who are currently languishing behind bars in Turkey under abusive conditions in which torture and ill-treatment are...

Erdoğan’s long arm targets critics, stirs up troubles in Sweden

Turkey has expanded its witch hunt against critics to Sweden, using government institutions, affiliated NGOs and operatives, a report released by the Stockholm Center...
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