Germany grants asylum requests of Turkish military officers
Germany has approved the requests for political asylum of a number of Turkish military officers that were lodged following a coup attempt in Turkey...
Dutch journalist filed complaint against threats from Turkey
A Dutch journalist of Turkish origin who has been targeted by threats originating from Turkey prompted authorities in the Netherlands to take security measures.
Basri...
Turkey’s justice ministry refuses to assert authority for Kavala’s retrial
The Turkish Justice Ministry has rejected a petition from the lawyers of jailed businessman and philanthropist Osman Kavala asking the ministry to assert its...
ECtHR orders Turkey to pay damages to German-Turkish reporter
The European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday ordered Turkey to pay damages in excess of 12,300 euros ($14,000) to a German-Turkish journalist, ruling...
Assessing Afrin operation, Erdoğan’s ultra-nationalist ally Bahçeli shows to Turks ‘domination over world’ as...
Devlet Bahçeli, the leader of ultra-nationalist Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and close ally of Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has showed to Turks...
Turkey changes prison regulation to replace ‘strip-search’ with ‘detailed search’
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has made changes to a 2020 regulation on the execution of searches in Turkey’s prisons and detention centers, replacing...
UK citizen recounts his abduction in Kenya by individuals allegedly linked to Turkish intelligence
Necdet Seyidoğlu, a UK citizen who was kidnapped on Friday by individuals allegedly connected to Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT), has recounted his terrifying...
Turkey detains co-mayors from pro-Kurdish party in eastern Ağrı province
Müşerref Geçer and Emrah Kılıç, the co-mayors of Patnos in Turkey’s eastern Ağrı province from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), have been detained,...
Every night when we go to bed, we think of the possibility of arrest...
“Every night when we go to bed, we think of the possibility that we might be taken in the morning. We all carry the...
A police officer who guards Turkish Parliament committs suicide after dismissal
A police officer working at Turkish Parliament as a security officer committed suicide using his service pistol late on Wednesday in Ankara, shortly after finding...
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