Erdogan ally cleric says Turkey must acquire WMDs to deter West
Hayrettin Karaman, a leading theologian that is known as chief fatwa (religious edict) issuer for Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the ruling Justice...
Scotland’s Law Society expresses deep concern over treatment of Turkish judiciary
The Law Society of Scotland and the Faculty of Advocates have endorsed a letter to the Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, expressing concern...
Belgium refuses to give visas to Turkish imams
Long-term visa applications for four Turkish imams have been rejected by Belgian authorities, Deutsche Welle reported on Wednesday.
According to the report the decision, taken...
Court denies objection to Turkish-German journalist’s pre-trial detention
A Turkish court on Wednesday denied an objection to the continued imprisonment of Deniz Yücel, the Turkey correspondent for German daily Die Welt who...
UN judge in pre-trial detention denies Gülen links over Bylock use
Aydın Sefa Akay, a judge for the United Nations Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals (MICT) who is in pre-trial detention in Turkey on coup...
Press Council warns against targeting of journalists due to views on referendum
One of the leading journalism organizations in Turkey, the Press Council, has warned that some journalists are being targeted due to their views on...
Polling place at Diyanet mosque in Amsterdam accused of pressuring voters
The Amsterdam municipality visited a polling station at a Turkish mosque in the Dutch capital after the mosque was accused of pressuring voters with...
Rutte’s spokesperson refutes PM Yıldırım, says ‘no apologies were made’
A spokesperson for the Netherlands' Prime Minister Mark Rutte has refuted the Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım who said in a live TV interview on...
High-profile Twitter accounts hacked by Erdoğanist hackers
Thousands of Twitter accounts, including high profile ones belonging to users such as Forbes, Amnesty International, the BBC’s North American service, and tennis star...
Juncker says Erdoğan’s Nazi remarks drive Turkey further away from EU
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has criticized Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for his comparison of Germany and the Netherlands to the Nazis,...
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