IHH files complaint against AKP ‘hitman’ over controversial remarks about Mavi Marmara

The Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (İHH), which organized the Mavi Marmara flotilla to Gaza in 2010, has filed a...

Gun attack targets critical journalist İrfan Değirmenci’s house

An armed attack was staged on the dissident journalist İrfan Degirmenci’s house in İstanbul on early Wednesday. “My house was shot with bullets towards...

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...

Turkey is no longer a country governed by the rule of law, says a...

In a new report unveiled today as part of continuing series that focus on human rights violations and arbitrariness in the application of the...

Days before critical referendum in Turkey oppression targeting naysayers soars

As political tension escalates days before the critical referendum on Sunday over a radical switch to executive presidency, widespread oppression over naysayers and abuse...

Pro-government mob attacks HDP office in Denizli, steals laptops, money

A pro-government crowd attacked a building in Denizli belonging to Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), officials said Wednesday. Pictures from the scene appeared to...

Erdoğan targets West: Some haven’t forgotten the pain of losing İstanbul

Continuing to target the West during his nonstop “yes” campaign ahead of an April 16 referendum on a switch to an executive presidency, Turkey's...

Erdoğan refuses to listen to Kurdish citizens’ messages during a radio show

Turkey’s autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has refused to listen to the messages of Turkey's Kurdish citizens in a radio show he was attended...

Der Spiegel: Pro-Erdoğan Sites Take Aim at Critics in Germany

Influential German newsweekly Der Spiegel wrote that Erdoğanist websites like the Ottoman Generation and Muslim Mainstream have become gathering points for supporters of Turkey’s...

Amsterdam-based Turkish citizen says lost job due to Erdoğan’s policy of hatred

A Turkish citizen in the Netherlands casted his/her vote for Turkey’s referendum with an attached note saying that he got sacked as a result...

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