Turkey ranks 157th in RSF’s 2018 World Press Freedom Index

Turkey, which has jailed more than 250 journalists and media workers, is ranked 157th among 180 countriesin the 2018 World Press Freedom Index released by Reporters...

Turkey’s ruling AKP, its ally MHP reject proposals of probe into Suruç killings, Çorlu...

Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its ally, the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), have rejected proposals from opposition parties for a parliamentary...

Turkey labeled high risk in global torture index

Turkey has been classified as a high-risk country for torture and ill-treatment in the first edition of a new international index, Turkish Minute reported. The Global...

Turkish opposition leader briefly denied passport over ‘terrorism links’

Temel Karamollaoğlu, the leader of the Turkish opposition Islamist Felicity Party (SP), has said that his request for a new passport was rejected by...

Turkish warplanes re-launches to strike Kurdish militia targets in Syria

Turkish warplanes have launched a new wave of bombing of Kurdish militia targets in Syria’s Afrin region, the Turkish General Staff said on Friday, and...

Turkish police detain HDP deputy and spokesperson Osman Baydemir

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Şanlıurfa deputy and spokesperson Osman Baydemir was detained in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır on Friday. Baydemir was released after giving...

Years of coal plant expansion torment Turkey’s villagers

Kneeling in the morning shade under a tree, Osman Arslan brews tea behind a coal-fired power plant that rises above his Turkish Aegean village...

NRC reports Turkish-Dutch youngsters trained by radical Islamist Nureddin Yıldız in Turkey

The political Islamist National View (Milli Görüş) organization has taken dozens of Turkish-Dutch youngsters to Turkey in recent years to have them taught by...

Turkey’s broadcast regulator fines 2 TV stations, orders Disney+ and Spotify to remove content

Turkey’s broadcast regulator has fined two national television stations and ordered global streaming platforms Disney+ and Spotify to remove content from their catalogs, citing...

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...
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