HDP Co-chair Yüksekdağ sentenced to 1 year in prison on terror charges

Co-Chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Figen Yüksekdağ has been handed down a prison sentence of one year for disseminating the propaganda...

COMMENTARY — Al-Qaeda running on Erdoğan’s election ticket in Turkey

By Abdullah Bozkurt It was hardly surprising to see that a former al-Qaeda suspect was nominated as a front-runner candidate for a parliamentary seat in...

Outlawed PKK militants kill 8 Turkish soldiers in attack in Batman

Eäght Turkish soldiers were killed and two others were wounded on Thursday in an attack carried out by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)...

German court releases MİT agent Sayan with 2-year judicial probation

A German court in Hamburg has decided on Wednesday to release Mehmet Fatih Sayan, who gathered information for Turkish National Intelligence Organisation (MİT) on Turkish...

Ministry cancels world-famous Armenian violinist’s concert as frequent bans spark outrage in Turkey

Turkey’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism has canceled a concert by Spanish-Armenian violinist Ara Malikian in Ankara on June 11 without specifying the reason...

Pro-gov’t Turkish daily claims jailed US pastor knew about coup attempt 6 years ago

The pro-government Yeni Asır daily claimed on Thursday that it had acquired an audio recording in which American pastor Andrew Brunson, who has been...

Ailing 78-year-old prisoner hospitalised in Turkey’s East

A 78-year-old female prisoner in Turkey’s East who is suffering from heart and lung disease and hypertension was hospitalized on Sunday, the left-wing Artı...

German citizen arrested in Turkey for spreading terrorist propaganda on social media

A German citizen identified as Dennis E. has been arrested in Turkey on charges of disseminating terrorist propaganda on social media, the Demirören news...

ECtHR faults Turkey for barring Orthodox priests from foundation boards

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Turkey violated the rights of two Greek Orthodox priests by preventing them from serving...

COMMENTARY — CoE asks Erdoğan to stop promoting political Islam in Europe

By Abdullah Bozkurt The multinational proposal tabled last year by the parliamentarians of the Council of Europe (CoE), the large intergovernmental organization that champions democracy,...
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