Details of brawl between Minister Kaya and Dutch police in Rotterdam emerges
Replying the questions of the Dutch Parliament's members on Monday, the Dutch government has given some new details of the brawl between Turkish Minister of...
Erdoğan refuses to listen to Kurdish citizens’ messages during a radio show
Turkey’s autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has refused to listen to the messages of Turkey's Kurdish citizens in a radio show he was attended...
PACE to observe referendum in Turkey
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) announced on Monday that it will send a 20-member delegation to Turkey to observe the...
Italian journalist del Grande detained in southern Turkey
Gabriele del Grande, an Italian journalist working for the ANSA news agency, was detained during security checks in the southern province of Hatay on...
Three consecutive life sentences sought for Zaman journalists on coup charges
An indictment prepared by an İstanbul prosecutor seeks three consecutive life sentences for 30 individuals who include journalists and executives from the now-closed Zaman...
Der Spiegel: Pro-Erdoğan Sites Take Aim at Critics in Germany
Influential German newsweekly Der Spiegel wrote that Erdoğanist websites like the Ottoman Generation and Muslim Mainstream have become gathering points for supporters of Turkey’s...
Romanian police return passport of Turkish businessman
Romanian police have returned the passport of Soner Cesur, a Turkish businessman with investments in Romania, which they seized on March 25 upon a...
Doctors in Turkey discouraged from writing up reports on abuse, torture
There appears to be a systematic and deliberate campaign by the government of Turkey to dissuade doctors from writing up reports that prove abuse...
75 academics face 15 years in jail each for depositing money into Bank Asya
An indictment prepared against 77 academics from the Bolu-based Abant İzzet Baysal University (AIBU) has sought up to 15 years in prison sentence for each...
Journalist Önal sentenced by a court for 6 years and 3 months of imprisonment
Former editor of Bianet's Kurdish section, Yunus Önal, has been sentenced to 6 years and 3 months in prison in a court case he...
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