Turkey’s pro-Erdoğan daily lists Pope and Trump as terrorists in its front page
Turkey's pro-government Yenisöz daily has placed US President Donald Trump, Pope Francis and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on a list of wanted...
A chief prosecutor in Turkey says Gülen movement like a Jewish organization
Çankırı Chief Public Prosecutor Hüsnü Aldemir likened the Gülen movement to a Jewish organization during a meeting with unit chiefs and muhtars, Haberci18 news...
Turkish court gives 2 years of prison sentence for pro-Kurdish HDP deputy Tan
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Altan Tan was sentenced to 2 years in prison by a Turkish court on Thursday. The court has...
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 Erdoğan slams US decision to charge his bodyguards for Washington brawl
Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan slammed a recent decision by US authorities to announce criminal charges against 12 members of Erdoğan’s security detail...
AKP member posts picture of machine gun, says awaiting orders from Turkey’s Erdoğan to...
Mehmet Aybek, a member of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) youth wing, on Thursday shared a photo on Facebook of an MP5 machine...
Pro-Erdoğan Turkish journalists call for assassination of Gülen followers abroad
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Journalists Cem Küçük and Fuat Uğur, who are staunch supporters of Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, made a call on Thursday for the...
Erdoğan’s bodyguards to be charged in attacks at Turkish ambassador’s DC residence
Criminal charges will be announced against 12 members of Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s security detail, accused by authorities of attacking protesters outside...
Kurdish workers attacked in Turkey Ankara province by nationalist mob
Eight construction workers from Bingöl, a Kurdish majority city, were reportedly attacked by what appeared to be a nationalist mob late on Monday at...
In a letter, a jailed woman reveals abuse and ill-treatment in Turkish prison
A letter by a jailed Turkish woman who wrote to her aunt from Konya prison revealed the ill-treatment of detainees who were subjected to...
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