Brother of key suspect in Turkey’s controversial coup named top Erdoğan aide
Ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Deputy Chairman and Sakarya deputy Şaban Dişli, brother of Maj. Gen. Mehmet Dişli, one of the key suspects in...
Turkey’s pro-gov’t daily targets Doğan media, suggest gov’t seizure of Hürriyet
The pro-government Türkiye daily and its columnists targeted the Doğan media group on Wednesday and suggested that the government seize its largest media outlet,...
JWF report reveals Gülen affiliated science schools, seized by Turkish gov’t, turned into hub...
A report, released by the Journalists and Writers Foundation (JWF) on March 2017 on the fate and state of private educational institutions and educators...
Hannover added to list of German cities which ended sister city protocols with Turkish...
Hannover has been added to the list of German cities which have ended the cooperation with the Turkish cities in the framework of "sister...
Turkish gov’t revokes novelist Erdoğan’s passport to hinder her to receive prize bestowed in...
Turkish government has seized the passport of the prominent Turkish novelist and human rights defender Aslı Erdoğan before he travels to Germany to receive the Erich...
19 including 15 guards of Turkey’s Erdoğan indicted for attacking protesters in US
Indictments have been issued for 19 people, including 15 members of Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s security detail, for attacking protesters in Washington...
Turkey develops profiling software to identify allegedly Gülen-linked officers in Turkish military
A software program has been developed to facilitate the profiling of members of the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) as part of Turkish government's massive...
Report: US refuses to send F-16 training pilots to Turkey
The United States (US) has refused to send F-16 warplane trainers to Turkey after Ankara requested them in order to fill the gap in the...
TURKEY PURGE IN PAST 30 DAYS: 922 dismissed, 1,711 detained, 998 jailed over coup...
A huge cleansing of Turkey’s state and other institutions is continuing as people from all walks of life find themselves being hunted down and...
22,000 inmates sleep on jail floors in Turkey’s overcrowded prisons
At least 22,000 inmates are forced to sleep on jail floors as the number of prisoners reaches more than 224,000 for the first time...
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