Woman who lost family members in political murder searching for justice 6 years on
Emine Şenyaşar, three of whose family members were murdered by people connected to a lawmaker from Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), is...
Erdoğanist Turkish hackers attack Greek news agency and threaten: We’ll throw you into the...
The Athens-Macedonian News Agency (AMNA) on Monday night was hit by Turkish hackers, identifying themselves as “Akıncılar" (Raiders), who wrote threatening messages against Greece,...
Turkey’s Erdoğan announces victory as vote counting nears end
As the tallying of votes comes to an end, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made a statement on Sunday evening at the presidential office...
Former Turkish police chief jailed after 2013 investigation given limited water in prison
Former Turkish police chief Ömer Köse, who has been imprisoned since 2014 due to his role in December 2013 graft probes that implicated high-level...
Switzerland opens probe into allegations of spying on Turkish community
Switzerland has launched a criminal investigation into possible foreign spying on the country’s Turkish community, federal prosecutors said on Friday, according to Reuters.
The Swiss...
PACE monitors express serious concern about the future of democracy in Turkey
Mounting political pressure and judicial harassment aimed at weakening Turkey’s main opposition threaten the country’s democratic future, the co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Turkey...
Daughter: Death of Turkish writer who fell from balcony during police raid suspicious
Şeyma Ölmez, the daughter of Turkish writer Mustafa Hikmet Kayapalı who passed away after allegedly falling from a three-storey-building in the Balıkesir province in May...
Turkish President Erdoğan reiterates ‘sooner or later we will get Fethullah Gülen’
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reiterated on Tuesday that US-based Turkish Muslim scholar Fethullah Gülen would be brought to Turkey "sooner or later."
Speaking at...
Turkey delivers burnt clothes of Kurdish woman to family 8 years after her death
The burnt and shredded clothes of Hezni İnan, a Kurdish woman who was killed during a curfew declared in Şırnak province in December 2015,...
Jailed Turkish-German journalist Yücel: Isolation is torture
Turkey’s crackdown on journalists will go down in history as a “disgrace,” German reporter Deniz Yücel told German daily Die Tageszeitung in a Saturday interview, Deutsche Welle...
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