Atatürk banner not allowed into stadium in Turkey’s Samsun
As political tension over debates on a new regime continues to rise in Turkey, a banner commemorating Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey, was...
Greek police rescue 64 asylum seekers left on border islet by smugglers: report
Greek police rescued 64 asylum seekers, including 10 children, who had been left by smugglers on a tiny islet in the Evros River, which...
Turkey orders detention of 54 people, including 35 academics, over alleged Gülen links in...
Turkish prosecutors ordered the detention of 54 people, including 35 academics, due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, over the course of two...
Turkish military returns to 1930s practices due to unending post-coup purges, report says
Similar to the post-Independence War period and the early 1930s in Turkey, most brigades are now commanded by colonels and captains due to a...
Turkey’s post-coup decrees continue to wreak havoc on lives of purge victims: report
A joint report by two NGOs based in Europe has revealed that victims of a massive purge of state institutions by the Turkish government...
Former deputy chief justice of Turkey’s Constitutional Court given 11 years
Former deputy chief justice of Turkey’s Constitutional Court Alparslan Altan has been handed down a prison sentence of 11 years, three months on charges...
EUobserver: European foundation demands release of Turkish journalist Parıldak
A European foundation is calling for the release of a young Turkish journalist, jailed for seven-and-a-half years as a 'terrorist', in the latest of...
Turkish police detain ÖDP’s Onur Kılıç, others over critical social media posts
Police detained a number of people, including Onur Kılıç, a member of the Freedom and Solidarity Party (ÖDP), in raids on their homes in İzmir...
Erdoğan alleges no democracy or freedoms in Germany, Switzerland and Belgium
As tension between European countries and Ankara over a ban on referendum campaign rallies conducted by Turkish ministers persists, Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip...
Mothers urge Turkish gov’t to tackle root causes of youth crime as juvenile sentences...
Mothers raising teenagers in Istanbul’s poorer neighborhoods have urged the Turkish government to tackle the structural causes of youth crime as a new judicial...
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