MHP deputies attacked while campaigning for ‘no’ vote in upcoming referendum

https://youtu.be/Ejb3mh-GyqE Opposition Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) deputies Ümit Özdağ and Yusuf Halaçoğlu were attacked as they were set to deliver speeches as part of a...

Women celebrating Int’l Women’s Day attacked by mob in İstanbul

Female students celebrating International Women’s Day at İstanbul Bilgi University were attacked by a mob that illegally entered the university campus. According to a statement...

Pro-Erdoğan gang leader threatens European countries with violent protests

https://youtu.be/sood3kFnGzA Sedat Peker, a convicted gang leader and staunch supporter of Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said in a video that he can organize...

Erdoğan advisor says Turkey to face more chaos than in post-June 7 period if...

Chief advisor to Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and columnist İlnur Çevik has warned that there will be more chaos and instability in...

Once shut down by Taleban, now Afghan gov’t plans to hand over Turkish schools...

Political Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan led autocratic Turkish regime’s months long pressures have given fruits and Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani has agreed to...

United Nations told Christians in Turkey under crackdown

The European Centre for Law and Justice (ECLJ), a non-governmental organization in a special consultative status with the UN, has said religious minorities especially Christians...

COMMENTARY — Turkish government claims one-third of its diplomats are terrorists

By Abdullah Bozkurt The Turkish foreign ministry has branded one third of its diplomats as terrorists by merely an executive decision without any judicial process...

SCF report on the Netherlands decodes Erdoğan’s long arm in Europe

Turkey has escalated its witch hunt persecution on critics to abroad using government institutions, quasi-official parallel structures and front NGOs, a report released by Stockholm...

Al-Qaeda leader’s last sermon cancelled by Turkish governor

Ankara governor’s office cancelled the scheduled speech this Sunday by Turkish Al-Qaeda leader who has been freely preaching every Sunday morning for months and...

Erdoğan’s stooge manipulates hadith for ‘yes’ vote in referendum

Şevki Yılmaz, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s stooge, radical Islamist pro-Erdogan Akit daily columnist and Turkish Parliament’s former member, has manipulated a hadith of Prophet...

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