COMMENTARY — Ashraf Ghani sold Afghan kids’ future to Erdoğan
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Turkey’s Islamist rulers have succeeded in twisting the arm of the Ashraf Ghani government, which eventually succumbed to pressure from the Turkish...
Award given to exiled Turkish journalist for story on victim of post-coup torture taken...
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EU reacts to scandal of Turks’ abduction in Kosovo: Arrests were arbitrary, against EU...
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Turkey tries to snatch Gülen supporters in Gabon
Turkey’s autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s long arm has reached to West African nation Gabon where four Turkish nationals who work at Hizmet-linked school...
Video catches Turkish police brutally beating 2 handcuffed detainees
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A video shared by the pro-government İhlas news agency (İHA) shows two handcuffed men being beaten by police in the Dikili district of Turkey's...
Actresses protest barring of women from play at Turkish Parliament
Some 100 actresses gathered at İstanbul’s Kenter Theater on Monday and read out lines from various plays to protest the prohibition of female colleagues...
Veteran Turkish journalist Hasan Cemal sentenced over documenting PKK withdrawal
Veteran Turkish journalist Hasan Cemal has been given a suspended sentence of three months, 22 days by an appeals court for a series of...
Turkish court sentences veteran journalist Böken to 10 years in prison over alleged Gülen...
Ali Ahmet Böken (46), a veteran Turkish journalist and prominent broadcaster, was sentenced by a Turkish court on Tuesday to nine years, nine months...
Turkish police detain 2 people for singing in Kurdish at a wedding
Turkish police raided a wedding celebration in the Narlıdere district of İzmir province and detained two local musicians who were singing in Kurdish, according...
Turkish gov’t detains dozens of people over their alleged links to Gülen movement
The Turkish government detained dozens of people on Tuesday across Turkey as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt targeting alleged members of the...
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