The door of Alevi family marked with nationalist/Islamist phrases in İstanbul
The symbol of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) which is an ally for Turkish autocratic Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was drawn at the...
PEC protests judicial harassment of Turkish journalists in UN Human Rights Council statement
The Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), a nongovernmental organization with special consultative status at the United Nations, presented a statement on press freedom and journalist...
Turkey among top violators of press freedom in EU candidate countries: report
Turkey ranked third among European Union candidate countries in press freedom violations in the first half of 2025, with 64 incidents affecting at least...
Turkey placed under money laundering watch
Global money-laundering watchdog the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) placed Turkey under increased monitoring on Thursday for shortcomings in combatting money laundering and terrorism...
Chancellor says Austria will bar Turkish politicians from campaigning on its soil
Austria’s right-wing coalition government will bar Turkish politicians from campaigning on its territory ahead of June elections in Turkey, the chancellor has said, according...
Turkey issues detention warrants for 214 people over alleged Gülen links
Turkish authorities on Tuesday ordered the detention of 214 people including active duty and expelled military officers as well as former military cadets due...
Report reveals 38 women killed in Turkey in January
A report released by the Stop the Murder of Women Platform has showed that a total of 38 women became the victims of domestic...
Ankara police use excessive force to detain 30 in anti-gov’t protests over Erdoğan rival’s...
Police in Ankara detained at least 30 people on Friday, including students, a journalist and a lawyer, during a protest over the arrest of...
Jailed Turkish journalist Şahin Alpay: My health is getting worse
Şahin Alpay, a jailed veteran journalist and columnist of now-closed Zaman and Today's Zaman dailies, has said in letter sent from notorious Silivri Prison...
Turkey’s Justice Minister Bozdağ accusses US and German intelligence services of lying
Turkey's Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag has claimed that both German and the US intelligence have clear information that Fethullah Gülen and its supporters planned,...
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