Turkish authorities detain 353 on Gülen links in sweeping operations across the country
Turkish authorities have detained 353 people for alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced Friday on X.
Yerlikaya said...
9 killed during Nevruz celebrations under Erdoğan’s rule
A report on Nevruz celebrations in Turkey drafted by main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) lawmaker Sezgin Tanrıkulu has revealed that nine people have...
Turkish-backed Syrian rebels used child soldiers, pro-government think tank report reveals
Some 4 percent of the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army’s (SNA) ranks comprised child soldiers in the years prior to early 2020, according to a...
Turkish court jails Kurdish journalist Reyhan Çapan
A Turkish court ruled to jail journalist Reyhan Çapan, an editor of the now-closed pro-Kurdish daily newspaper Özgür Gündem, in Turkey's Artvin province.
Çapan, who...
HRW urges Turkey to use Öcalan’s call as ‘catalyst’ to end rights abuses
Human Rights Watch has called on Turkey to use a landmark call from a jailed militant leader telling his organization to lay down its arms as...
Greek PM wants EU aid for steel fence extension along Turkey border
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday called on the European Union to “seriously consider” providing financial aid to help extend an anti-migrant steel...
Turkey’s minority language newspapers in financial bottleneck as state aid cut
The prospects of the survival of minority language newspapers in Turkey look dimmer after the country’s Press Advertising Agency (BİK) failed to make a...
COMMENTARY — Turkey’s intelligence agency tapped journalist as asset in CNN Turkish affiliate
By Abdullah Bozkurt
The use of Turkish journalists as assets and media outlets as cover has long been a policy of Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization...
10 years after daughter was fatally shot by Turkish police, mother says family still...
Ten years after her daughter was shot and killed during a police raid on their family home, a grieving mother said her family still...
Powerful earthquakes take a toll on Turks’ mental health
Some barely sleep. Others fear spending time indoors. And many more have developed a profound fear of the mountains that had been their source...
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