Senior AKP member: Turkey’s Gezi Park protests completely planned by Germany

Burhan Kuzu, a member of the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) Central Decision and Executive Board (MKYK) and an AKP İstanbul deputy, has...

COMMENTARY — What is the reason of this grudge to Turkish Journalist Hidayet Karaca?

By Metin Yıkar* It has been over three years since one of the most brilliant names of the Turkish media industry Hidayet Karaca was confined...

Turkey’s Erdoğan calls on people to show no mercy to Gülen movement

Amid an ongoing witch-hunt targeting the faith-based Gülen movement, Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Saturday called on people to not show mercy...

Gülen’s lawyers refute letter submitted to US court by Atilla’s lawyer hired by Turkish...

A letter submitted to a New York court that was allegedly written by US-based Turkish Muslim scholar Fethullah Gülen ordering judges in Turkey to...

Turkish gov’t sentences journalist Türfent to 8 years and 9 months in prison

Journalist Nedim Türfent received threats of execution during the period of the curfews and has been in prison for 19 months for his journalistic...

Turkish citizen detained for disturbing peace after filing complaint against Erdoğan

A man who filed charges against Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for “discriminating against part of society” was detained shortly afterwards on charges...

American media likens questioning of Turkish police Korkmaz in New York court to McCarthyism

American media has likened the caustic questioning of Hüseyin Korkmaz, the former deputy head of the İstanbul Police Financial Crime Department, by a defense attorney...

Mother of purge-victim beaten by Turkish police for protesting son’s dismissal

Kezban Şaçılık, the septuagenarian mother of the purge-victim Turkish civil servant Veli Şaçılık, was reportedly beaten by a group of Turkish police officers for publicly protesting his...

Turkish gov’t detains and sentences dozens of people over alleged links to Gülen movement

As part of an ongoing witch-hunt targeting the alleged members of the Gülen movement, Turkish government has detained and sentenced dozens of people on...

Turkish gov’t detains Ugandan teacher in Diyarbakır on suspicion of Gülen links

Vanitho Ivan Kerawiya, a Ugandan national who until recently was working as a teacher at the Simya private college in Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish province...

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