Erdoğan says, detained human rights defenders gathered to plan follow up coup
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Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has accused a group of recently detained human rights defenders of plotting a follow up to July 15,...
Gülen’s Turkish sympathizer stabbed by pro-Erdoğan relative in Belgium
İbrahim Anaz, one of the executives at a Brussels-based association sympathetic to the Gülen movement, was stabbed by a family member who is a...
Turkey detains 9 human rights advocates including AI director
Police detained nine human rights advocates including Amnesty International Turkey Director İdil Eser at a hotel on Büyükada, one of İstanbul’s nine islands in...
CHP leader Kılıçdaroğlu: Pro-gov’t ultranationalists will attack ‘March for Justice’
Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has warned that pro-government ultranationalists could attack a “March for Justice” he launched on June 15 to...
Turkey sends note of protest to Germany over anti-Erdoğan installation
Turkey sent a diplomatic note to Germany on Tuesday protesting an installation by artist Philipp Ruch depicting Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan along...
BfV: MİT is after Turkish dissidents in Germany
Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) is collecting intelligence on Turkish dissidents and the outlawed the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Germany, according to the...
Turkey’s justice minister says Gülen followers take Christian names in order to infiltrate Western...
Turkey’s Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ said on Monday that followers of Gülen movement, change their Turkish names in order to infiltrate into the institutions...
Pro-gov’t journalist implies assassination for Turkey’s main opposition leader
Fatih Tezcan, a pro-government public speaker and columnist, on Monday implied that main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu would be assassinated...
Victims of Madımak Massacre commomerated on 24th anniversary in Turkey’s Sivas province
The Sivas Massacre, an arson attack staged by radical Islamists on mostly Alevi intellectuals inside the Madımak Hotel that killed 33 intellectuals and two hotel personnel,...
Turkish parliament speaker rejects parliamentary question by CHP on Sivas massacre
Turkish Parliament Speaker İsmail Kahraman has rejected a parliamentary question by main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) İzmir deputy Zeynep Altıok on the Sivas massacre,...
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