Turkish government calls on US to pullback troops from Manbij in Syria

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on Saturday called on the United States to withdraw military personnel from the Kurdish-held town of Manbij in northern...

Samsun barbers ban American-style haircut in retaliation for US visa ban

The Samsun Barbers Chamber announced on Wednesday that they have banned all barbers in the province from doing American-style haircuts in support of the...

ECtHR fines Turkey for violating Alevis’ freedom of faith

Turkey has been ordered to pay 54,400 euros in damages by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to the Cem Foundation for violating...

Turkey’s Jews condemn prosecutor’s remarks as tantamount to hate speech

Turkey’s Jewish community has condemned a statement by Çankırı Chief Public Prosecutor Hüsnü Aldemir, who likened the Gülen movement to a Jewish organization during...

Pro-Kurdish candidate fights anti-migrant sentiment in local Turkish elections

A pro-Kurdish candidate who lost his arm in prison during a police raid after a hunger strike in 2000 has turned three decades of...

Erdoğan praises Merkel for not criticizing Turkey’s policies

Amid tension between Berlin and Ankara, Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Thursday that he was hopeful about Turkey’s relations with Germany...

Turkey’s Erdoğan accuses Gülen movement of exporting terrorism from US to 160 countries

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has been waging a crackdown on followers of the Gülen movement over the past several years, accused the...

Erdoğanist journalist: US soldiers, diplomats to be executed in case of 2nd coup attempt

The US soldiers and diplomats in Turkey and elsewhere will be executed by “revenge teams” in case of a second coup attempt in the...

German comedian threatens Merkel with court action over Erdoğan poem

German comedian Jan Böhmermann has threatened German Chancellor Angela Merkel with court action unless she takes back a statement concerning a poem by Böhmermann...

Erdoğan on academic purge: Professors must also pay the price

Defending a recent purge of academics, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said academics must also pay the price of their mistakes just as others do,...

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