Turkey’s daily Cumhuriyet fires columnist Nuray Mert over ideological differences
Academic Nuray Mert has been fired from the Cumhuriyet daily, for which she has been writing columns since April 2015, for not complying with...
6 convicted in Afghan refugee’s death, but rights groups slam lenient sentences
A Turkish court has convicted six people in connection with the death of an undocumented Afghan refugee, but human rights advocates have condemned the...
Pentagon complains to Turkey over publication of US troop locations in Syria
The publication of the locations of the US military posts in Syria by Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency has endangered the troops, and the...
Turkish gov’t dismisses 461 career diplomats from foreign ministry over alleged links to Gülen...
The Turkish government has dismissed 461 career diplomats at the Foreign Ministry as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt targeting alleged members of...
Turkish daily claims pressure on advertising has caused financial problems
The Turkish Karar daily announced in its Monday edition that businesspeople and advertising agencies have been urged not to place ads in the newspaper,...
Journalist Şahin Alpay’s right to liberty and security violated, Turkish Constitutional Court rules
Journalist Şahin Alpay's ongoing house arrest continues to violate his right to liberty and security, Turkey’s Constitutional Court ruled on Thursday, Turkish media reported.
The...
Turkish prosecutor launches investigation into a 4-year-old girl
A Turkish prosecutor has launched a scandalous investigation into a 4-year-old Turkish girl in Erzurum province. According to an official document the Stockholm Center...
US Human Rights Report: Turkish gov’t’s prosecution and jailing of journalists hinder freedom of...
The Turkish government’s prosecution of journalists representing major independent newspapers and its jailing of scores of journalists in 2017 hindered freedom of speech, and...
Turkey orders detention of 174 active duty soldiers, 174 others in post-coup crackdown
Turkish prosecutors on Tuesday ordered the detention of 348 people as part of a post-coup crackdown targeting the faith-based Gülen movement, which is accused...
Turkey’s foreign ministry labels 394 Turkish diplomats as terrorists
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Turkey’s foreign ministry has branded almost 500 of its employees as ‘terrorists’ without any judicial proceedings and purged them from the government...
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