4 people trying to escape persecution in Turkey missing after boat capsizes in Evros...
A woman and her three children went missing after a boat carrying several Turkish asylum seekers who fled Turkey due to an ongoing government...
Brig. Gen. Evrim says July 15 coup attempt in Turkey was planned to fail
Brig. Gen. Hakan Evrim, a suspect in the July 15 coup attempt trial and commander of Akıncı Airbase, where Chief of General Staff Gen....
Mueller investigating Flynn role in alleged plan to hand Gülen over to Turkey
An alleged plan that involved former US National Security Advisor Michael Flynn to forcibly remove a Muslim cleric living in Pennsylvania in return for...
Czech court releases former PYD leader Muslim despite Turkey’s extradition request
A Czech court on Tuesday released Salih Muslim, the former co-chairperson of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), who was detained and subsequently...
Turkish gov’t issues detention warrants for 124 people over alleged links to Gülen movement
Turkish prosecutors in Konya province on Tuesday issued detention warrants for 124 people in 31 provinces across Turkey as part of the government's massive...
Erdoğan’s son-in-law sues over tweet questioning drones’ capabilities after earthquakes
Selçuk Bayraktar, the chief technical officer of Turkish unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) producer Baykar who is also the son-in-law of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,...
Turkish gov’t reluctant to assign 1,100 newly graduated medical doctors on basis of security...
Turkish government has reportedly not assigned at least 1,100 newly graduated medical doctors, who have still been waiting for the security/intelligence investigation to be...
Local journalist attacked in eastern Turkey after covering alleged irregularities in AKP municipality
A local journalist in eastern Turkey was attacked by two people connected to the mayor of a Justice and Development Party (AKP)-run municipality, which...
Top election authority overturns annulment of pro-Kurdish party candidate’s election victory
Turkey’s Supreme Election Council (YSK) on Wednesday approved an appeal made by the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) against a decision...
Turkey orders detention of 9 despite European court ruling that messaging app use alone...
Turkish prosecutors have ordered the detention of nine people for using an encrypted messaging app despite rulings by the European Court of Human Rights...
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