İYİ Party’s Akşener: Pro-Erdoğan civilians receiving weapons training in camps in Turkey

İYİ (Good) Party Chairperson Meral Akşener has claimed (pro-Erdoğan) civilians have been receiving weapons training in camps in the Black Sea province of Tokat...

Turkey not to welcome any more Afghan refugees, Erdoğan says

Turkey will no longer be able to afford to welcome any more Afghan refugees, said President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in a preview of a...

Erdoğan hints at anti-LGBT constitutional amendment to corner opposition

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Friday that a push by the leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) to guarantee headscarf...

Journalists Hürtaş, Demir and dozens more detained by Turkish police over criticism against Afrin...

Journalist Sibel Hürtaş, Ankara Bureau Chief of Germany-based online news outlet Artı Gerçek was detained by Turkish police at her house in Ankara on...

Turkish municipality stops licensing Starbucks, McDonald’s, Burger King

Following a call by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to boycott American electronics, a district municipality in Ankara has stopped issuing business licenses to...

Turkish court releases UN judge arrested over alleged Gülen links

An Ankara court on Wednesday ruled to release Aydın Sefa Akay, a judge for the United Nations Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT) who...

Protesters detained at İstanbul rally over banners condemning trade with Israel

Protesters carrying banners condemning companies engaged in trade with Israel were barred from entering a pro-Palestine rally in İstanbul on Wednesday organized by a...

Turkey detains 12 musicians who performed during pro-Kurdish party’s election campaign

Twelve musicians who performed during the election campaign of the pro-Kurdish Green Left Party (YSP) were detained on Wednesday in Turkey’s western province of...

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,...

Turkish opposition party leader put under house arrest for allegedly insulting Erdoğan

A Turkish court on Monday placed Nurullah Efe Ankut, leader of the People’s Liberation Party (HKP), under house arrest for allegedly insulting President Recep...
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