Turkish gov’t issues detention warrants for 68 military officers over alleged Gülen links
The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Monday issued detention warrants for 68 military officers, including 22 colonels and 27 lieutenant colonels, over their alleged...
Turkish police use teargas to disperse İstanbul gays, transgenders following ban
Members of İstanbul’s gay and transgender community (LGBTI) gathered for a rally on Sunday instead of the annual pride march after they said the...
Turkish police officer dismissed from job due to alleged Gülen links dies by...
Former police officer Fatih Ç, who was dismissed by government decree under a state of emergency declared in the aftermath of a controversial coup...
Zeki Güven, jailed police intelligence chief, becomes latest suspicious death in a Turkish prison
Zeki Güven, the former intelligence chief of the Ankara Police Department who was arrested by a Turkish court in May as part of the...
Woman acquitted by Turkish court of alleged Gülen link charges after losing baby, job
Former court clerk E.U., who lost her baby because of the heavy stress she experienced in detention after she was taken into custody for...
Turkey’s pro-government Habertürk daily to close down print operation
Turkey's staunchly pro-government Habertürk newspaper will close down its print operation on July 6 and go completely digital, according to a report by online...
Deputy PM: Turkish gov’t to adopt chemical castration for child abusers
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdağ said on Sunday that Turkey would adopt chemical castration for child abusers after the brutal abuse and murder...
COMMENTARY — UN terror list implicates Turkey in jihadist enterprise
By Abdullah Bozkurt
The United Nations’ (UN) growing sanctions list of terrorists reveals the terrible fact that the permissive and encouraging environment for the radicalization...
Turkey’s Constitutional Court rejects CHP application to cancel 13 gov’t decrees
Turkey’s Constitutional Court in a unanimous vote on Friday rejected a petition filed by the main opposition Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) to abrogate 13...
Turkish military shelling in Iraq leaves 19-year-old Kurdish girl dead
Turkish military shelling in an area along the Turkey-Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) border in northern Iraq on Saturday resulted in the death of a...
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