AKP official who attracted criticism with civil war remarks resigns
Justice and Development Party (AKP) Manisa provincial deputy chairman Ozan Erdem who warned of a civil war if a ‘no’ vote comes out from...
Turkish teacher under UN protection detained in Azerbaijan for deportation to Turkey, wife says
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Taci Şentürk, a Turkish teacher who was working in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku, was taken by police to an unknown place after UN...
OSCE: Detention of hundreds in Turkey for expressing dissenting views on military operation in...
Harlem Désir, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Representative on Freedom of the Media, has turned to the authorities of Turkey...
Turkey’s Erdoğan and Pope Francis meet in Vatican as Rome locked down in tight...
Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made the first visit by a Turkish president to see the Pope in the Vatican in 59 years...
Turkey launches probe into dismissed protestor’s 70-year-old mother
The Ankara Chief Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation into 7 people, including Kezban Şaçılık, the mother Veli Saçılık who is activist and a sociologist...
Int’l press, human rights bodies slam Turkish court’s ruling of aggravated life sentences for...
International press and human rights organisations have slammed a decision rendered by a Turkish court on Friday of aggravated life imprisonment for prominent journalists...
Erdoğan terrorizing Turkey to become caliph
By Abdullah Bozkurt
In his latest push to secure an imperial presidency that will lead to a self-declared caliphate, Turkey’s top Islamist ruler, Recep Tayyip...
Dutch government formally withdraws ambassador to Turkey over 2017 row
The Dutch Foreign Ministry on Monday said it had formally withdrawn its ambassador to Turkey, who has been physically barred from the country for...
BBC report: Women with 6-month-old infants in jail due to emergency rule in Turkey
Hundreds of women are in pretrial detention in jails across Turkey with their infants, some of them less than six months old, due to...
Germany launches investigation into Diyanet’s Keskin
The Office of the Federal Prosecutor of Germany has launched an investigation into Halife Keskin, the foreign relations general manager of Turkey’s Religious Affairs...
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