Pro-Erdoğan televangelist Adnan Oktar, his followers detained by Turkish police
İstanbul police early Wednesday detained Adnan Oktar (62), a controversial Muslim televangelist known abroad as "Harun Yahya" over the work done on his anti-evolution...
Turkish gov’t realises almost 15,000 official contacts across world to defame Gülen movement
Turkish government led by Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has realised almost 15,000 official contacts with its international interlucutors to defame the members and...
Turkey denies entry to 2 French politicians
Turkish airport police on Tuesday denied entry to two French Communist Party members who wanted to attend festivities for Newroz, a celebration of spring’s...
Boy struggling with leukemia needs jailed parents’ support, grandfather says
The grandfather of Hakan Dağdeviren, an 11-year-old boy diagnosed with leukemia in January whose parents are imprisoned as part of a crackdown in Turkey...
Turkish court accepts ‘you are not guilty’ note as crime evidence
High Criminal Court in Turkey's Bolu province has assessed a note found at the house of an alleged member of the Gülen movement saying "They...
Işık University fires two academics for signing peace petition
Işık University in İstanbul fired academics Sinan Birdal and Prof. Dr. Neşe Yıldıran after they refused to remove their support from a petition signed...
Migrants killed in Evros wildfires victims of ‘two great injustices of our times’: Amnesty...
The death of 19 people believed to have been migrants and refugees in fires in northeastern Greece are victims of two great injustices of...
7-year-old Felek Batur killed by armoured vehicle in Turkey’s Siirt province
Seven-year-old Felek Batur, who was hit by an armored vehicle used by Turkish security forces on patrol in Turkey’s southeastern province of Siirt, has...
CCBE urges release, medical treatment of detained Turkish lawyer
Antonín Mokrý, president of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE), which represents the bars and law societies of 45 countries...
Turkish judiciary releases 3 men involved in murder of alleged child kidnapper
Turkish judicial authorities have released three men involved in the killing of a man who had allegedly attempted to abduct two children in İstanbul’s...
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