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...
Turkish officials remove Arabic signs in İstanbul district densely populated by Syrian refugees
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Russia’s Sputnik news agency closes Kurdish edition at Turkish gov’t’s request
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Turkish gov’t closes German Embassy school in İzmir province
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Turkish gov’t detains 10 military personnel over alleged links to Gülen movement
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Survey shows Turkish mainstream media reluctant to cover massive human rights violations
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US senators visit Turkey’s Erdoğan to discuss case of jailed pastor, delivery of F-35...
Two US senators who have sought to prevent Turkey from purchasing a Russian S-400 missile defense system and the delivery of F-35 fighter jets...
Organizers say İstanbul LGBT pride march will go ahead despite ban
İstanbul’s sixth lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) pride march will go ahead on Sunday even though the governor of the city banned it...
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