Families: Women detained over alleged Gülen links subjected to maltreatment under Turkish police custody
The families of women detained in operations ordered by provincial Chief of Police Cengiz Zeybek and Governor Ersin Yazıcı between March 26-29 in a...
HRF calls on Kosovo PM to apply non-refoulment principle, obey int’l HR law on...
The New York-based Human Rights Foundation (HRF) sent a letter to Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj on Friday and requested that he apply the...
Turkish gov’t issues detention warrants for 46 people over alleged fraud in police exam
Turkish prosecutors issued detention warrants for 46 people, mostly police officers, on Friday over alleged fraud in a police academy entrance exam in 2012
The...
Turkey’s Erdoğan slams France’s Macron for offering to mediate between Turkish gov’t and SDF
Autocratic Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday slammed France after French President Emmanuel Macron offered to mediate between Turkey and the Kurdish-dominated Syrian...
Kosovo PM sacks security chief, interior minister over abduction of 6 Turkish citizens
Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj on Friday dismissed the interior minister and the secret service chief after the arrest and extradition to Turkey of...
Afrin locals’ remarks intentionally mistranslated on Habertürk in favor of FSA
In an apparent move to justify an ongoing Turkish military operation in the northern Syrian town of Afrin, the remarks of several locals who...
Seventeen int’l press freedom groups condemn raid on pro-Kurdish daily
Seventeen international press freedom groups have called on Turkish authorities to immediately release 12 printing plant workers and staff arrested on March 28 at...
COMMENTARY — Erdoğan unleashes criminal gangs on his critics in Turkey and abroad
By Abdullah Bozkurt
The government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has become accustomed to relying increasingly on testimonies and complaints filed by convicted felons, known...
Kosovo President Thaçi slams detention of 6 Turkish citizens over links to Gülen movement
Kosovo's President Hashim Thaçi has reacted to the arrest on Thursday of six Turkish citizens and said, "Today we are disappointed because our relevant institutions,...
Turkish authorities change 400-year-old mosque’s name from ‘Kürtler’ to ‘Türkler’
Turkish authorities have changed the name of a 400-year-old mosque in Turkey's Kilis province from "Kürtler Camii" (the Mosque of Kurds) to "Türkler Camii"...
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