Turkey’s Erdoğan slams TÜSİAD on EU and state of emergency calls
Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Thursday rebuffed the Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen’s Association (TÜSİAD) for their calls on the government to push...
McCain: Violent response of Erdoğan’s security detail reflective of his treatment of dissents in...
US Senator John McCain and Senator Dianne Feinstein have released a written statement and urged Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to hold accountable the members...
US senator McCain calls for removal of Turkey’s US ambassador Serdar Kılıç
Arizona Senator John McCain, one of the leading foreign policy voices in US Congress, urged the expulsion of Turkey's Washington ambassador Serdar Kılıç after...
CHP’s Pavey says inmates subjected to inhuman treatment, torture in Turkey’s prisons
Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party's (CHP) deputy Şafak Pavey, who has shared her impressions from visits she paid to some well-known prisons in...
COMMENTARY — Did Turkey’s intel have anything to do with a bomb attack on...
By Abdullah Bozkurt & Ahmet Dönmez
A suicide bombing attack aboard a civilian passenger jet in Mogadishu on Feb 2, 2016 that forced the plane...
Four Turks deported from Saudi Arabia sent to jail in Turkey over donations to...
An Ankara court sent to jail 4 out of 16 Turkish nationals who were deported back to home from Saudi Arabia as part of...
30 detained over support to Turkey’s post-coup hunger strikers
At least 30 people detained after police intervention into a group, gathered to read a press statement in solidarity with Kemal Gün, Nuriye Gülmen and...
Turkish police confiscate Islamic books, Bible as terror evidence
A number Islamic books by Turkish-Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, a Bible and some other religious publications including the one on Jesus Christ have been...
CoE’s Muižnieks expresses dismay at conviction of activist Çelikkan in Turkey
Nils Muižnieks, the Council of Europe’s (CoE) commissioner for human rights has voiced his disappointment over a court decision on Monday to hand down...
Reactions mount to assault of Erdoğan protestors by Turkish security
Turkish security officials were part of an assault on demonstrators protesting outside the Turkish ambassador’s residence on Tuesday according to two law enforcement sources,...
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