Turkey’s main opposition CHP makes Erdoğan’s relatives’ off-shore bank documents public
Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) spokesperson Bülent Tezcan provided the media with documents purportedly revealing off-shore bank transactions of the close circle...
Turkish gov’t detains hundreds of people, mostly military officers over alleged links to Gülen...
Turkish government has detained some hundreds of people, including over 300 military officers across Turkey on last two days as part of the government's...
Turkish gov’t detains nationalist news portal’s editor over alleged links to Gülen movement
Journalist İsmail Türk, the editor-in-chief of a nationalist online news portal, Haber Erk and a former columnist for the Yeniçağ daily newspaper has been...
Reza Zarrab says Turkish President Erdoğan gives order to start Iran trade under US...
Reza Zarrab, the US prosecution's 'star witness', who is a Turkish-Iranian gold trader whose prosecution in Manhattan has drawn sharp criticism from Turkey’s autocratic...
COMMENTARY — Exposing generals in Erdoğan’s troll army
By Abdullah Bozkurt
For several years now senior Turkish government officials clustered around Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan have been running an army of...
Turkey’s top court to assess an appeal by HDP’s jailed co-chair Demirtaş on Dec....
Turkey's top court has announced on Thursday that the court will be assessing an appeal by pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party's (HDP) imprisoned Co-chair Selahattin...
22-year jail term sought for Turkish director over movie showing Erdogan’s execution
Turkish prosecutors are seeking 22,5-year jail sentences for Turkish producer Ali Avcı over a movie trailer that shows the moments before the apparent execution of...
ECtHR rejects CHP’s application against April 16 Presidential referendum in Turkey
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has declared on Thursday that Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party's (CHP) complaint about April 2017 referendum...
Turkish opposition leader: I have more documents on Erdoğan family’s bank transactions
Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has said he holds more documents proving that Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s...
Turkish gov’t detains 50 people including fighter pilots over alleged links to Gülen movement
Turkish government has detained 50 people on Thursday including many fighter jets' pilots as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt campaign targeting the...
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