Lawyer of abducted teacher detained for rejecting to sign false testimony in Turkey
A lawyer representing Önder Asan, a private school teacher who was abducted by unidentified individuals in Ankara on April 1, has been detained for...
SDF’s seizure of Tabqa reveals ISIL and al-Qaeda books published freely in Turkey
Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have revealed following their capture of Syrian town of Tabqa that the ideological indoctrination material for The Islamic State of Iraq...
İstanbul court gives 18 months jail term for journalist Çelikkan, 15 months for academic...
Journalist and author Murat Çelikkan, who joined ‘the Editor-in-Chief on Watch’ campaign in solidarity with the pro-Kurdish Özgür Gündem daily, which was later shut...
İstanbul Municipality shuts down magazine for publishing graffiti reading ‘Erdo-gone’
İstanbul Municipality has shut down its '1453 Culture and Art Magazine' for featuring a graffiti that reads: “Erdo-gone! Inshallah Mashallah” in its latest issue. According...
Sociologist Uğur Kömeçoğlu taken under custody in Turkey’s post-coup witch hunt
Uğur Kömeçoğlu, an associate professor at the sociology department of the government-closed Süleyman Şah University, has joined the ranks of intellectuals imprisoned in the aftermath...
A schoolmate of Turkey’s President Erdoğan’s son to run state-owned TRT
İbrahim Eren, a schoolmate of Bilal Erdoğan, son of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has been appointed general manager of public broadcaster TRT following...
Three SAT commandos detained on coup charges in Edirne while trying to flee Turkey
Three Turkish Underwater Attack Commandos (SAT) commandos who allegedly took part in a failed coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, were detained in...
Gülen says Turkey’s slide into authoritarianism must be stopped in WP article
On the day when Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will meet with his US counterpart Donald Trump at the White House, Turkish-Islamic scholar...
Al-Qaeda linked jihadist group in Syria bestows award to Turkey’s İHH
A split faction of the radical Islamist terror organization al-Qaeda in Syria, Ha’yat Tahrir, organized an awards ceremony in Idlib for the ‘Secret Heroes of...
Apple co-founder Wozniak cancels his attendance in İstanbul Municipality’s Expo
The co-founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak, canceled his participation to İstanbul Municipality’s World Cities Expo event. Wozniak was scheduled to deliver his speech in...
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