Improvised explosive kills 3 Turkish soldiers, injures 3 in Syria’s Afrin
Three Turkish soldiers were killed and three others were wounded by an explosion on Thursday during a search operation in the Afrin province of...
Turkish court sentences singer, actress Olcay to 10 months in prison for ‘insulting Erdoğan’
Turkish singer and actress Zuhal Olcay has been sentenced to 10 months in prison for “insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan” by İstanbul's 46th...
European leaders condemn Turkey’s actions in Mediterranean
European leaders are set to strongly condemn Turkey’s “illegal actions” toward Greece and Cyprus in a blistering denunciation to be released on Thursday that...
US prosecutors drop charges against Erdoğan’s guards who attacked protestors in US
US federal prosecutors have decided to dismiss charges against 11 of 15 members of autocratic Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s security team after they...
AEJ-Bulgaria invites 95 jailed Turkish journalists to EU-Turkey leaders meeting
The Association of European Journalists - Bulgaria (AEJ-Bulgaria) has issued symbolic accreditation badges for 95 jailed Turkish journalists to attend the EU-Turkey leaders meeting...
BBC reveals Turkey faced just 15 attacks from Afrin, not 700
A report by the BBC on Tuesday disproved a widely held Turkish claim voiced by the highest echelons of power in Ankara that there...
New Internet censorship legislation passed in Turkish Parliament
A piece of legislation criticised for constituting a censorship law was approved on Wednesday in the Turkish Parliament to "regulate" video and audio broadcasts...
Canada’s Green Party leader on human rights violations in Turkey: I am entirely horrified
Canada's Green Party leader and lawmaker Elizabeth May said during a panel discussion held at the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa on widespread human rights...
Turkey’s Kırşehir Governor Şentürk vows to occupy Mosul and Jerusalem
Necati Şentürk, the governor of Turkey's Kırşehir province, who was appointed by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government led by autocratic Turkish President...
Turkish court sentences rector, deans, academics of closed university to long prison terms over...
The 2nd High Criminal Court in Turkey's Kayseri province has sentenced Prof. Dr. Mahmut Dursun Mat, the last rector of Kayseri's Melikşah University, which was...
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