Turkey’s Erdoğan says Turks will shape Europe’s future
Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said "Europe's future depends on the Turks who live there," during a political rally in the Black...
15-year sentence sought for MİT truck prosecutor on terror charges
An indictment prepared by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office seeks a jail sentence of between seven-and-a-half and 15 years for former prosecutor Aziz...
Days before critical referendum in Turkey oppression targeting naysayers soars
As political tension escalates days before the critical referendum on Sunday over a radical switch to executive presidency, widespread oppression over naysayers and abuse...
FDD experts: Erdoğan more concerned about opposition to his power than about Turks’ lives
Assessing the Turkish government’s ostensible struggle against Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) the experts of Washington D.C. based Foundation for Defense...
Turkish Minister Kaya sues the Netherlands over her forced expulsion
Turkish Minister of Family and Social Policy Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya, who lived a brawl with the Dutch police in Rotterdam on March 11, 2016,...
Turkish family detained while fleeing Turkey’s post-coup dragnet to Greece
Seven members of a Turkish family were detained in İzmir province while they were allegedly on their way to escape to Greece early on Tuesday. According...
Erdoğan admits being behind arrests of thousands in post-coup purge
Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government and himself are behind the arrests of thousands of...
ECtHR to take up Cumhuriyet journalists’ cases on priority basis
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has decided to examine on a priority basis applications filed by jailed journalists and executives from the...
COMMENTARY — Jihadists who decapitated priests in Syria got help from Turkey’s intelligence
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) had willingly and deliberately helped known Jihadists of Russian nationals who decapitated Aleppo’s Greek Orthodox Bishop Boulos...
Turkish gov’t detains 1358, jails 381 over alleged coup involvement in last 15 days
A huge post coup witch hunt by Turkey’s state and other institutions is continuing as people from all walks of life find themselves being...
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