Journalist Gültaşlı highlights double standards of int’l press and rights bodies for jailed Turkish...
Ahead of the second anniversary of the seizure of the Zaman Media Group by a government led by autocratic Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,...
COMMENTARY — Turkey’s Erdoğan sowing the seeds of jihadist ideology among African students
By Abdullah Bozkurt
The scary spectacle of how African exchange students who receive their education in Turkey on government scholarships are being indoctrinated in jihadist...
8 Turkish soldiers killed, 13 more wounded in Afrin operation
Eight Turkish soldiers were killed and 13 were wounded in clashes with the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia in the Afrin region of Syria,...
Petition campaign launched in Turkey for release of ailing 78-year-old female prisoner
A petition campaign has been launched for the release from prison of 78-year-old Sise Bingöl, who is suffering from heart and lung disease and...
Turkish court sentences pro-Kurdish HDP deputy Öcalan to 2.5 years for terror propaganda
A Turkish court on Thursday sentenced pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Dilek Öcalan, a niece of Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed leader of the...
Turkish gov’t detains dozens of teachers, sentences Gülen relative over links to Gülen movement
The Turkish government detained dozens of people, mostly teachers, across Turkey on Thursday as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt targeting alleged members...
Turkish Interior Ministry: 106,740 guns reported missing in 2017
A total of 106,740 guns were reported to be missing or stolen in 2017, according to a report by the Turkish Interior Ministry, raising...
Turkish government bans access to critical Ahval news website
The Turkish Telecommunications Authority (BTK) on Wednesday imposed an access ban on the critical news website ahvalnews.com as the Turkish government’s crackdown on the...
Turkey’s Erdoğanist militia HÖH changes name after Interior Ministry warning
The People’s Special Forces (HÖH), a pro-Erdoğan jihadist militia that emerged allegedly to counter a controversial military coup attempt on July 15, 2016 and...
4 members of Turkish family killed in traffic accident after visiting jailed relative in...
Four members of the Aydın family were killed in a traffic accident on Wednesday evening while driving from Turkey's Erzurum province to their hometown...
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