Turkey’s pro-gov’t daily sets up hotline for informing on Gülen followers in EU countries
The pro-government Sabah daily’s Europe edition, Sabah Avrupa, has set up a telephone line for its readers to report followers of the faith-based Gülen...
Political, bureaucratic pressure might have led to Turkish police chief’s suicide
A police chief for İstanbul’s Silivri district who committed suicide in July 2017 might have taken his own life because he was subjected to...
Turkish gov’t grants poverty certificate to purge-victim businessman after seizing his multi-billion company
Jailed Turkish Businessman Taner Nakıboğlu, the owner of government-seized NAKSAN Holding, a Turkey-based packing company, said during a hearing on Tuesday that before his...
Lawyers association: Imprisoned Gülen followers subject to rape, nail extraction, object insertion
People imprisoned as part of a government crackdown on the Gülen movement are being systematically tortured in the most barbaric ways including rape, removal...
US ‘deeply concerned’ after Turkey detains Amnesty’s Kılıç
The United States on Wednesday expressed “deep concern” about the recent detention of Taner Kılıç, the chair of Amnesty International Turkey, as part of...
Amnesty chief to ask EU’s Mogherini to raise arrest of HR activists with Turkish...
Amnesty International Secretary-General Salil Shetty is to meet with High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini on Tuesday...
Reliable sources: 6 abducted Turkish educators still kept in Kosovo
The reliable local sources in Kosovo informed Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) on Thursday that the detained 5 Turkish educators and an academician have...
Ankara, Moscow finalize deal on S-400 missiles as US firm to sell Turkey air-to-air...
Turkey and Russia have signed a $2,5 billion agreement for Moscow to supply Ankara with an S-400 missile defense system, while the US arms...
Report: Turkish people prefer closed messaging services for sharing news
Mainstream media in Turkey are losing their monopoly in agenda setting with the emergence of digital news sites, while fear of state surveillance has...
Afghan-Turk school raided by Turkish diplomats, soldiers in Afghanistan’s Mazar-e Sharif
A group of Turkish diplomats led by Turkish Consul General Şevki Seçkin Alpay together with dozens of Turkish soldiers and Afghan military police officers...
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