Turkey’s pro-Kurdish HDP Co-chair Buldan: Interior minister threatened me on phone

Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chair Pervin Buldan has claimed Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu threatened her, telling her that HDP officials no longer...

Human rights bodies: 5,268 people tortured under Turkey’s state of emergency

A total of 5,268 people, including 133 children, were reportedly subjected to torture in Turkish prisons, under police custody, outside of detention facilities, during...

Lawyers for Turkey’s jailed Kurdish presidential candidate apply to ECtHR

Lawyers for Selahattin Demirtaş, the jailed presidential candidate of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), applied to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)...

Turkish President Erdoğan’s ultra-nationalist ally targets journalists who ‘defamed’ his party

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli, an ultra-nationalist ally of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, ran an advertisement in a number of newspapers...

Turkish President Erdoğan’s spokesman tells US congressman to ‘shut up’

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s spokesperson has slammed a US congressman who urged on social media no congratulations for Erdoğan’s June 24 election win,...

Turkish gov’t issues detention warrants for 132 people over alleged links to Gülen movement

Turkish authorities on Tuesday issued detention warrants for a total of 132 people over alleged links to the Gülen movement, the state-run Anadolu news...

Turks who voted for Erdoğan would be better off in Turkey than Austria, deputy...

A prominent member of Austria’s Freedom Party, the junior partner in the country’s coalition government, has said Turks in Austria who voted for Turkish...

EU Commission hopes Turkey will remain ‘committed partner’ on key issues

The European Commission said on Monday it hoped Turkey would “remain a committed partner” after an election that gave President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sweeping...

OSCE: Opposition parties denied equal conditions for campaigning for Turkish elections

Opposition parties were denied equal conditions for campaigning in Turkey’s June 24 elections, and the incumbent president and ruling party enjoyed undue advantage, including...

CHP’s İnce concedes defeat, denies Erdoğan threatened him

Muharrem İnce, the presidential candidate of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), on Monday conceded defeat in the June 24 presidential election, denying...

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