New PACE president raises concern over Turkey’s failure to enforce ECtHR rulings
Petra Bayr, the newly elected president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), has said Turkey faces a serious problem of...
Turkey tries to snatch Gülen supporters in Gabon
Turkey’s autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s long arm has reached to West African nation Gabon where four Turkish nationals who work at Hizmet-linked school...
‘New formula’ should be found to comply with ECtHR rulings on Demirtaş and Kavala:...
Hayati Yazıcı, deputy chairman of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), said a new formula should be found to comply with the European...
Women’s rights movements, Turkish Twitter users fight back as release law, COVID-19 crisis spur...
The number of Turkish women suffering from domestic violence surged after some 90,000 convicts were freed under an early release law and the onset...
Over 1,000 child sex abuse victims recorded in southeastern Turkey in 2 years
A total of 1,008 children were listed as victims in sexual abuse cases in Turkey’s southeastern province of Şanlıurfa over the past two years,...
Former Turkish director of Pak-Turk school, his family kidnapped from Lahore
Former director of Pak-Turk School, Mesut Kaçmaz, a Turkish national, has reportedly been kidnapped along with his family in the early hours of Wednesday...
Thousands of migrants illegally deported from Turkey, says Syrian Associations Platform chairman
Mehdi Davud, chairman of the Syrian Associations Platform (Suriyeli Dernekler Platformu), in an interview said thousands of migrants from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq had...
CoE Commissioner Muiznieks voices dismay on indictment for Turkish human rights defenders
Nils Muiznieks, Council of Europe (CoE) Commissioner for Human Rights, has expressed his dismay at the prosecutor’s indictment against Turkish human rights defenders detained...
Turkey’s media watchdog fines 2 TV stations over ‘vulgar’ remarks and drama series content
Turkey’s broadcasting watchdog has fined two national television stations over separate broadcasts, citing vulgar language in a live program and content deemed contrary to...
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...
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