Turkey’s Erdoğan calls opposition leader ‘coward,’ promises to cut off traitors’ heads
Enraged at the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu calling the July 15, 2016 coup attempt a “controlled coup” Turkey's autocratic...
Turkish Armenian intellectual escapes from prison: The bird has flown
Sevan Nişanyan, a Turkish intellectual of Armenian origin who was imprisoned on Dec. 2, 2014 for “construction infractions,” announced in a tweet on Friday...
UN human rights specialists call on Turkey to release rights defenders
A group of United Nations experts on Friday called on the Turkish government to immediately release nine human rights defenders and two foreign trainers...
Turkish gov’t makes over 12,000 talks abroad to defame Gülen movement
Turkish government under the rule of autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has mobilized all state facilities to defame the Gülen movement all over the...
One year on, new research uncovers Turkey’s coup bid staged by Erdoğan himself
Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) has published an updated version of last week’s damning report on Turkey’s failed coup bid that confirmed long-held suspicions...
Canadian rights advocate says Turkey’s post-coup crackdown amounts to genocide
Turkey’s post-coup witch-hunt against followers of the faith-based Gülen movement is tantamount to genocide, Renee Vaugeois, a Canadian human rights specialist, said in an interview...
Turkey’s Erdoğan: CHP’s Kılıçdaroğlu may never be able to go out on the street...
Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan threatened main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu with not being able to go out into...
Turkey’s Erdoğan slams BBC reporter: You have more freedom than me
Turkey's despotic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has slammed a BBC reporter who commented on the high number of jailed journalists and closed-down media outlets...
Turkish police detain student over fingerprints on Gülen books
Turkish police detained a university student after finding her fingerprints on books written by Fethullah Gülen that were thrown in the garbage to avoid...
Politician Meral Akşener slams Turkish Parliament speaker for degrading remark
Former Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) deputy and leadership candidate MeralAkşener has strongly criticized Turkish Parliament Speaker İsmail Kahraman for referring to her by the...
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