Erdoğan calls Turkey’s jailed journalists ‘thieves, child abusers, terrorists’
At a time when Turkey ranks the first among a list of countries with the highest number of jailed journalists, Turkey’s autocratic President Recep...
Suspicious deaths and suicides on the rise in Turkey with 54 people in last...
Against the background of massive crackdown on critics and opponents in Turkey and widespread torture practices in detentions and prisons, 54 people were reported...
Court bans access to column after pro-Erdoğan media owner complains
A Turkish court has banned online access to a column by Ceren Sözeri that had been published in the Evrensel daily last year after...
Gov’t critics abroad fear persecution, stay away from Turkish consulates
The German daily Die Welt has documented the cases of harassment by Turkish consulate officials against certain opposition groups: The Gülen movement, Kurds and...
Turkey among Muslim countries electronic devices in direct flights banned by US and UK
The US announced late on Monday that electronic devices larger than a mobile phone will be prohibited in the passenger cabin on flights from...
21-year-old student jailed after his ‘no’ video goes viral ahead of referendum
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Twenty-one-year-old university student Ali Gül was arrested days after a video he appeared in as part of a “No” campaign went viral in the...
Arrest warrant issued for journalists over exposing Dink’s murderer with Turkish flag
As six suspects, including a journalist, were detained in Samsun on Monday as part of an ongoing investigation into the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink,...
Turkey tells UN that demand to release UN court judge void
The demand to release a top United Nations (UN) court judge is “void,” Turkish authorities said in a letter addressed to the UN Security...
Ministry: 94,000 fired, 30,000 suspended from state posts over alleged Gülen links since July...
Turkey’s Ministry of Labor and Social Security announced on Tuesday that a total of 94,867 people have been fired while 30,618 others have been...
Merkel’s ally Bouffier says Erdoğan ‘not welcome’ in Germany
Volker Bouffier, vice chairman of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, said that Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has crossed...
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