Turkey detains 77 in latest operations over alleged Gülen links
Turkish authorities have detained 77 people in nationwide operations in the past two weeks over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, Turkish Minute...
COMMENTARY — Erdoğan’s Turkey now aiding and abetting North Korea
By Abdullah Bozkurt
North Korea has now been added to the short list of rogue states the Islamist government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...
Turkey’s main opposition CHP begins ‘march of justice’ in protest of deputy’s arrest
The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) on Thursday kicked off a “march of justice” from Turkey’s capital Ankara to İstanbul in protest of...
Turkish court hands down longer prison sentence in retrial of Kurdish journalist
A court in southeastern Turkey on Wednesday sentenced Kurdish journalist Perihan Kaya to more than 18 months in prison on terrorism-related charges in a...
73-year-old inmate dies of cancer shortly after his release
Ehettin Kaynar, 73, succumbed to cancer on Sunday in eastern Turkey's Iğdır province, two months after he was belatedly released from prison despite his...
CHP’s Kılıçdaroğlu: Turkish President using Brunson crisis to cover up his economic failure
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the leader of Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), has said that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is deliberately using the...
State-owned bank declines application for earthquake assistance loan submitted by post-coup purge victim
Turkish state-owned Vakıfbank has declined the request of a former prosecutor who was fired from the civil service following a July 15, 2016 coup...
More cities in Turkey ban theater play ‘Just Dictator’
“Just Dictator,” a play starring critical actor Barış Atay, was not allowed to be performed in Hopa following a ban in the provincial city...
Inmate with late stage cancer taken to emergency ward after condition worsens
Yusuf Özmen, a stage 4 cancer patient who remains in prison despite a medical report saying he is almost totally disabled, was taken to...
Turkish lawyer detained, beaten and abandoned by ‘police’
Turkish lawyer Burak Mengü, the brother of journalist and renowned TV news presenter Nevşin Mengü and the son of a former parliamentarian from Turkey's...
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