Turkish court releases former UK soldier on bail in Kurds’ YPG trial
A Turkish court on Saturday decided to release on bail a British national who in 2015 joined Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) battling...
US’ Mueller investigating Flynn’s work on documentary attacking Gülen
The US special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating work performed by former national security advisor Michael Flynn on a documentary targeting Turkish-Muslim scholar Fethullah...
COMMENTARY — Erdoğan saved IRGC drug traffickers, human smugglers in Turkey
By Abdullah Bozkurt
The government of Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has aided and abetted a drug trafficking and human smuggling network run in...
At least 6,375 women killed across Turkey under Erdoğan rule in last 15 years
At least 6,375 women were killed across Turkey in last 15 years under the rule of Justice of Development Party (AKP) led by Turkish...
Armenian church association attacked in Turkey’s Malatya
Amid tension arising from the marking of Alevi houses in a neighborhood in the province of Malatya, the Association of Kurtuluş Churches was attacked...
Turkish gov’t transfers 87-year old ‘coup suspect’ to prison far away from hometown
Ali Osman Karahan, a 87-year-old Turkish man who has been kept in an Isparta Prison for almost 15 months over alleged links to the...
Maden Family’s relatives afraid of Turkey’s Erdoğan regime to attend in their funerals
Cevheri Güven, an exiled Turkish journalist who live in Greece, wrote in online news outlet Kronos that the parents and relatives of the Maden...
Turkish media worker Zafer Özsoy faces 3 life sentences with no evidence
A Turkish media worker, who has been behind bars for 478 days, faces three consecutive life sentences and additional 15 years in jail on...
Turkish court sentences man more than 8 years in prison over his legal complaint...
A Turkish court has sentenced a man for 8 years, 1 months and 15 days in prison on Friday due to his legal complaint...
Turkish gov’t to try two journalists with demand of 45 years in prison for...
A Turkish court in Hatay province has accepted the indictment for journalists Erdoğan Alayumat and Nuri Akman from now-closed Dicle news agency (Dihaber) on...
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