Director of Turkey’s Presidential Archives calls for arming of households
Muhammet Safi, the director of Turkey’s Presidential Archives, has called for the arming of every household for the defense of Turkey, the Diken news...
Tillerson meets wife of US pastor jailed over alleged Gülen links
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met with the wife of a jailed American pastor, Andrew Brunson in Ankara late on March 30, a...
HDP’s Paylan warns against assassination plans targeting critical Turkish citizens in Europe
Garo Paylan, pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputy and a member of Parliamentary Commission for Planning and Budget, has stated on Wednesday that he...
Local AKP politician killed in armed attack in Diyarbakır
Orhan Mercan (34), the deputy chairman of the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Diyarbakır’s Lice district, was killed in an armed attack...
Turkish PM Yıldırım takes anti-Gülen witch-hunt to the US
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has called on Muslims in the US to distance themselves from people linked to the Gülen movement, inspired by...
Turkish gov’t’s refugee espionage in US this time targets Nakıboğlu family
A new case of refugee espionage abroad committed by Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency (AA), which is under direct control of the Turkish government...
Turkish gov’t seals off Gezi Park days before the anniversary of 2013 protests
Turkish police has sealed off İstanbul's Gezi Park near the historical Taksim square ahead of the fourth anniversary of the nationwide anti-government demonstrations that...
Turkey’s Erdoğan says indictment against guards scandalous, US protecting Gülen movement
Turkey’s autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday called a recent US indictment against his bodyguards for violently attacking protesters in Washington, D.C., “scandalous,”...
FDD experts: Erdoğan more concerned about opposition to his power than about Turks’ lives
Assessing the Turkish government’s ostensible struggle against Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) the experts of Washington D.C. based Foundation for Defense...
Turkey’s Constitutional Court rejects release demand of journalists Alpay and Altan
The Constitutional Court has rejected the release demand of two prominent Turkish journalists, Şahin Alpay and Mehmet Altan, despite earlier ruling that the rights...
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