Turkish TV commercial under investigation for featuring actor resembling Fethullah Gülen
Turkey’s Health Ministry has launched an investigation into the production of a one-minute, 56-second commercial due to the resemblance of one of the actors...
Turkish court sentences journalist Mahalli for allegedly insulting Erdoğan
A Syrian-Turkish journalist was handed down a suspended sentence of two years, five months on Thursday for allegedly insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,...
Turkish gov’t to seek extradition of former football player over alleged Gülen links
A high criminal court in İstanbul on Wednesday requested that the necessary judicial action be taken for the extradition of former Galatasaray football player...
49 pct of people in Turkey say they are exposed to fake news
Forty-nine percent of the Turkish public thinks they are exposed to fake news, with Turkey heading a list of countries whose citizens claim they...
Jailed deputy of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish HDP goes on hunger strike
Leyla Güven, a jailed deputy of Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), announced on Wednesday that she had started a hunger strike, the Diken...
Kurdish politician Burhan Karatay dies in Turkish prison
Local Kurdish politician Burhan Karatay, an ailing 67-year-old prisoner in the Giresun Type E Closed Prison, died from a heart attack on Tuesday.
The pro-Kurdish...
Turkish gov’t detains 33 military officers over alleged links to Gülen movement
The Turkish government detained 33 military members on Wednesday as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt targeting alleged members of the Gülen movement.
Gendarmerie...
German Interior Ministry denies receiving extradition list from Turkey’s Erdoğan
Germany’s Interior Ministry has said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan did not present a list of 136 people to German Chancellor Angela Merkel whose...
Drawing critical of Erdoğan censored in Germany upon request from Turkish consul
A drawing by Kurdish artist Ali Zülfikar critical of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been censored at an exhibition in the German city...
COMMENTARY — Erdoğan shields Hizb ut-Tahrir from criminal prosecution in Turkey
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Hizb ut-Tahrir, an outlawed group that calls for the reinstatement of the caliphate that was abolished in Turkey, was recently given a...
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Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft
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Pushbacks of Turkish asylum seekers from Greece to Turkey: Violation of the principle of...
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Human rights in Turkey: 2021 in review
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