Turkey’s top court drags its feet on second petition from jailed MP
The Constitutional Court of Turkey has sent a second petition filed by a jailed opposition lawmaker claiming the violation of his rights to the...
Human Rights Association speaks out against arrest of Yüksel Street protestors
The Ankara branch of the Human Rights Association (IHD) in a statement published Tuesday on Twitter condemned the arrest of six former civil servants...
German union urges action against violence targeting exiled Turkish journalists
Frank Überall, chairman of the German Journalists’ Association (DJV), has called on the federal government to take steps to prevent threats and attacks targeting...
Turkey’s Erdoğan says businessmen who transfer wealth abroad now not ‘national’
Following negative signals and reactions from markets over his remarks urging the government not to allow some businessmen to transfer their assets abroad, Turkish...
22 years old music teacher killed in PKK attack laid to rest in Turkey’s...
Music teacher Şenay Aybüke Yalçın who was killed in an terrorist attack by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the southeastern province of...
17th century Armenian church on preservation list demolished in western Turkey
An Armenian church dating to 1603 in the western province of Kütahya that was on the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism’s preservation list...
Report: Turkish airstrikes destroy archaeological site of Brad in Syria’s Afrin
A bombardment by Turkish fighter jets has reportedly destroyed the archaeological site of Brad, which lies 15 kilometers south of the northwestern Syrian city...
Turkish woman with COVID-19 made to appear before judge in hazmat suit
Turkish authorities made a woman who tested positive for COVID-19 appear before a judge in Bursa province in a hazmat suit on October 14...
White House: Trump-Erdoğan phone call not endorsement of referendum results in Turkey
The White House’s Principal Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Sanders, while en route to Wisconsin with President Donald Trump aboard Air Force One, told reporters...
Turkish gov’t issues detention warrants for 84 people over their alleged use of ByLock
Turkish prosecutors issued detention warrants on Tuesday for 84 people over their suspected use of the ByLock mobile phone messaging app as part of...
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Throughout the year Turkey continued...
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Sippenhaft, also known as...