Pro-Kurdish HDP: Turkish government jails 4,500 party members in 2 years
Turkish government has detained about 11,000 pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) members in the last two years and put 4,500 of them in prison,...
Deputy parliament speaker: West formed ‘crusader alliance’ against Turkey
Turkish Deputy Parliament Speaker and Adıyaman deputy Ahmet Aydın has claimed that Western countries have joined forces to form a “crusader alliance” against Turkey...
Turkish police officer, suspended over alleged Gülen links, commits suicide
İbrahim Eski, a police officer who was suspended from his duty in the framework of an investigation carried out as part of Turkish government's...
Pro-Erdoğan Turks’ violence targeting members of Gülen movement reaches Belgium
Pro-Erdoğan Turks' violence targeting the members of the Gülen movement over a controversial military coup attempt on July 15, 2016 has reached Europe, with...
Child worker accounts reveal plight of Syrian refugees in Turkey
The personal accounts of child workers who work 12 hours a day for a fraction of the minimum wage while having to endure social...
Pro-Erdoğan lawyers file criminal complaint against US officials on terror charges
A group of pro-Erdoğan lawyers in Turkey have filed what appears to be a frivolous criminal complaint on terror charges against prominent names in...
Twitter account of Turkish-American organization linked to Erdoğan suspended for targeting Enes Kanter
Twitter on Thursday suspended the account of the Turkish-American National Steering Committee (TASC), a diaspora organization known for its close ties to Turkey’s president,...
Turkish PM: We did not ask US for evidence of Sept. 11
Amid reports that Turkey may have offered $15 million to a former adviser of US President Donald Trump to illegally remove Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen...
Turkish PM Yıldırım says German FM Gabriel should mind his own business
In response to critical remarks made by German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel about Turkey’s EU membership, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım on Friday said...
Oda TV editor-in-chief gets suspended sentence for ‘insulting’ Erdoğan
Barış Pehlivan, editor-in-chief of the Oda TV news website, has been given a suspended sentence of 11 months, 20 days for “insulting” Turkish autocraticPresident...
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