Turkish Education Ministry launches investigation against use of ‘inter-religous dialogue’ phrase
Turkish Education Ministry has launched an paranoid investigation against a teacher of the primary school student over her use of sentences including the phrase of...
Turkey’s Erdoğan regime extends post-coup witch hunt targeting Gülen followers abroad
Turkey, under the autocratic rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has stepped up its witch hunt against the alleged members of Gülen movement abroad,...
CHP deputy asks about 7 abducted purge victims in parliamentary question
Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) İstanbul deputy Sezgin Tanrıkulu has submitted a parliamentary question to the Parliament Speaker’s Office in which he...
Turkish President Erdoğan’s chief advisor Bulut threatens EU
Yiğit Bulut, a chief advisor of Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, on Monday threatened the European Union (EU), warning them to refrain any...
ISIL suspects released in big numbers under Erdoğan’s rule
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Cells linked to Turkish networks of al-Qaeda and Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) have been mushrooming in İstanbul’s conservative Sultanbeyli...
Erdoğan guard threatens woman with rape on social media
Fatih Menteş, a police security guard of Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has threatened to rape a woman, calling her a “son of...
IHH files complaint against AKP ‘hitman’ over controversial remarks about Mavi Marmara
The Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (İHH), which organized the Mavi Marmara flotilla to Gaza in 2010, has filed a...
Seven victims of Turkey’s post-coup purge reportedly abducted
Mysterious disappearances involving already-victimized opposition groups have become a common occurrence in Turkey in the aftermath of the July 15 coup attempt with at...
COMMENTARY — Turkey’s intel agency MİT helped Jihadists kidnap foreigners in Syria
By Abdullah Bozkurt
A Turkish al-Qaeda militant who had been involved in kidnapping for a ransom to raise revenue for the radical armed group was...
PACE warns reinstatement of death penalty incompatible with CoE membership
General Rapporteur on abolition of the death penalty for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Yves Cruchten has said plans by...
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