AKP deputy warns colleagues not to greet Gülen followers at Eid, says report them...
Ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) parliamentary group deputy chairman and Kayseri deputy Mustafa Elitaş warned party members in Kayseri on Thursday not to...
Georgia shuts down school affiliated with Gülen movement on request of Turkey’s Erdoğan regime
Georgia’s Ministry of Education has revoked the teaching license of the Demirel College, a private school founded in Tbilisi by the businesmen affiliated with...
Governor’s Office bans protests and marches for one month in Turkey’s Van province
The Van Governor’s Office has prohibited the issuance of press releases, the setting up of tents and stands, sit-ins and similar forms of protest...
Turkish general first tortured as putschist, then released for resisting coup
Air Forces Chief of Personnel Maj. Gen. Cevat Yazgılı was first jailed and tortured for allegedly supporting a controversial coup attempt on July 15,...
Author Erdoğan says imposition of travel ban by Turkish gov’t is psychological torture
Turkish author Aslı Erdoğan, who was released on December 29, 2016 after 132 days in jail due to links to the pro-Kurdish Özgür Gündem...
Zühtü Arslan, president of Turkey’s top court, criticized for bowing to Erdoğan
The president of Turkey’s Constitutional Court (AYM), Zühtü Arslan, has been criticized on social media for bowing to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at a...
Referring to talks with Turkey’s Erdoğan, Macron says being world leader not ‘cool’
French President Emmanuel Macron has said being a world leader is not as “cool” as it seems and cited having to speak with Turkey's...
Cartoonist Trivedi portrays 13 people disappeared in Turkey since July 15 coup attempt
Aseem Trivedi, a political cartoonist and free speech activist, has called people all around the world to raise their voices for the disappeared people...
Report: High-ranking Turkish intelligence officer, police chiefs among asylum seekers in Germany
Some high-ranking police chiefs and a member of Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) top brass are among asylum seekers in Germany, the Die Welt...
Report: Turkish security forces located prime coup suspect, failed to catch him
Turkish security forces located Adil Öksüz, the prime suspect of a controversial coup attempt last year, when he was trying to flee Turkey but...
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