Turkish prosecutor seeks to proceed against pro-Kurdish HDP co-chair, deputies for alleged terrorist propaganda
The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday requested permission to proceed in a criminal case against Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chair Pervin Buldan...
European Court of Auditors doubts all EU funds reach refugees in Turkey
EU funding has helped refugees in Turkey, but Ankara’s refusal to reveal their names raises doubts about whether the money is reaching all who...
Turkish gov’t issues detention warrants for 145 people over alleged links to Gülen movement
The Turkish government issued detention warrants for 145 people and detained 80 across Turkey on Tuesday as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt...
Turkish special forces storm Kurdish family home in Van’s Erciş district
Special forces of the Turkish police (PÖH) and gendarmerie (JÖH) attacked a family home in the village of Çobandüzü in the Erciş district of...
Minister Varank: Turkish gov’t has dismissed 1,289 TÜBİTAK personnel over links to Gülen movement
The Turkish government has dismissed 1,289 employees of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) over their alleged links to the Gülen movement,...
Turkish gov’t cuts disability benefit for blind journalist serving prison sentence
Visually impaired Turkish journalist Cüneyt Arat, who was jailed in July 2017 over alleged links to the Gülen movement, sent a letter through his...
Turkish daily claims pressure on advertising has caused financial problems
The Turkish Karar daily announced in its Monday edition that businesspeople and advertising agencies have been urged not to place ads in the newspaper,...
Gülen movement confirms botched plot against jailed followers in Turkey on election night
The Alliance for Shared Values (AfSV), the official representative of the Gülen movement in the United States, in an online statement on Sunday, confirmed...
France contradicts Turkey’s Erdoğan on Khashoggi tapes
French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian on Monday said that France was not in possession of recordings related to the killing of Saudi journalist...
Female student who ‘insulted’ Atatürk arrested by Turkish court
A 21-year-old female university student who was detained for “insulting” Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, was arrested by a...
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