COMMENTARY — Erdoğan’s personal troubles complicate Turkey-US ties
By Abdullah Bozkurt
The number one concern for Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan while meeting with visiting Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Feb....
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Turkey arrests journalist over post on school knife attack despite later correction
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Turkish Medical Association’s 8 detained members released
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PACE committee urges action against transnational repression, reveals Turkey’s tactics
Unanimously adopting a draft resolution on May 23 based on a report by Christopher Chope (United Kingdom, EC/DA), the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe’s...
Carlos Latuff: Erdoğan drags Turkey into a dictatorship in broad daylight
"(Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip) Erdoğan has been dragging Turkey into a dictatorship in broad daylight, before the eyes of the world," said the...
Kurdish journalists detained in police raids in southeastern Turkey
Journalists Ertuş Bozkurt and Mikail Barut were detained on Sunday in police raids on their homes in southeastern Diyarbakir province, the Bianet news website...
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