Amnesty secretary-general poses outside infamous Turkish prison where AI’s Eser is jailed
Amnesty International (AI) Secretary-General Salil Shetty posed for a picture on Tuesday outside İstanbul’s infamous Silivri Prison where AI Turkey Director İdil Eser is...
President Erdoğan: Turkey’s destiny tied to AKP’s
Turkey's autocratic President and Chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said Turkey’s destiny has become tied to...
ISIL suicide bomber planning to attack police station in Turkey killed
Turkish police on Wednesday killed an Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) suicide bomber as he was planning to attack a police...
300-room summer palace under construction for Turkey’s Erdoğan
A summer palace with 300 rooms and four-meter-high walls is being constructed at Okluk Bay, in Marmaris, for Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,...
Head of İstanbul Bar Association: No rule of law in Turkey
Chairman of the İstanbul Bar Association Mehmet Durakoğlu has warned against the threat of political favoritism in the judiciary and said there is no...
Undersecretary of Justice Ministry: Turkish gov’t to build more than 50 prisons for Gülen...
Kenan İpek, the Undersecretary of Turkey's Justice Ministry, has stated that Turkish government is building more than 50 new prisons for the alleged members...
Numbers of people detained, arrested, sentenced by Turkish gov’t over their alleged links to...
Three people who were detained on Sunday at Turkey’s Ipsala border gate on the grounds that their passports were among thousands of others which...
Turkish-Armenian intellectual Nişanyan says failed coup staged to purge Gülen followers
Turkish-Armenian linguist and writer Sevan Nişanyan, who escaped from a prison in İzmir in July, shared his take on a failed coup in Turkey...
COMMENTARY — Turkey’s Maarif Foundation: Erdoğan’s Trojan horse
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government, led by overly ambitious and self-aggrandizing President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has spent millions of...
Germany warns citizens vacationing in Turkey of arbitrary arrests
The German foreign ministry has updated a travel warning for citizens currently holidaying or planning to vacation in Turkey, saying they could be arbitrarily...
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