Turkish expats in Germany hope for citizenship law overhaul
Şener Sargut is from Turkey but has lived in Germany for over six decades, is married to a German woman and speaks the local...
Tragedy in İstanbul: 29 killed in fire during repair work at nightclub
Twenty-nine people died and one other person is suffering from injuries in a fire at a nightclub in an İstanbul residential building on Tuesday,...
CHP deputy asks ministry for information on 22K inmates without beds in Turkish prisons
Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Murat Emir applied to the Justice Ministry on Sunday for information on the reportedly 22,000 inmates...
Woman arrested on Gülen links says in letter her children were left to the...
A woman who was arrested due to alleged links to the Gülen movement said in a letter to Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Ömer...
İHD: 1,413 detained, 128 tortured in Kurdish-populated region of Turkey in first half of...
At least 128 prisoners were subjected to torture and ill-treatment in prisons and 1,413 people, including 44 children, were detained in mostly Kurdish populated provinces of...
Turkey’s constitutional court opens the way for purged civil servants to practice law: report
Turkey’s Constitutional Court said on Friday that former public servants who were dismissed from their jobs by government decrees after a 2016 coup attempt...
Turkish gov’t detains dozens of teachers, sentences Gülen relative over links to Gülen movement
The Turkish government detained dozens of people, mostly teachers, across Turkey on Thursday as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt targeting alleged members...
4-year-old starts seeing psychologist after mother’s arrest
The 4-year-old daughter of a woman who was arrested for alleged links to the Gülen movement has started to receive psychological help after developing...
CPJ calls on Merkel to bring up media freedoms during Turkey visit
A leading press freedom advocacy group, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), has sent a letter to German Chancellor Angela Merkel urging her to...
511 German citizens victims of Turkish scam over alleged links to Gülen movement
At least 511 German citizens have been scammed out of 7 million euros in total, fearing investigations reportedly opened into them in Turkey over...
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