Turkish police disturb mourning family and friends of deceased academic Özcerit

Turkish police have reportedly continued to disturb the mourning family members, relatives and friends of the deceased academic Ahmet Turan Özcerit on Tuesday following the...

Turkish teacher Gökhan Açıkkolu, tortured to death in police custody, would be acquitted if...

Forty-two-year-old Turkish teacher Gökhan Açıkkollu, who was tortured to death under police custody in the wake of a controversial military coup attempt on July 15, 2016...

Turkish intelligence agency used a family-owned business to provide supplies for ISIS

Abdullah Bozkurt Two Turkish nationals and their company, recently sanctioned by the US Treasury for aiding and abetting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria...

Companies to be banned from public tenders in Turkey based on secret MİT reports

An amendment made to Turkey’s Public Tender Law based on a government decree (KHK) that went into effect last November bans individuals and companies...

HRW: Prosecutions of alleged followers of Gülen movement lack of evidence, criminal activity

New York-based international human rights organisation, Human Rights Watch (HRW), has highlighted worsening situation with regards to human rights, rule of law, freedom of...

Erdoğan says West might have technology but Turkey has faith in God

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has criticized Western countries for disrespecting Turkey’s security concerns, saying they may have advanced technology but Turkey has faith...

Bizarre trial of veteran Turkish journalist Mehmet Özdemir who faces life time in jail

Award winning journalist who have worked his way up from being an intern reporter to a senior editor in Turkey’s one-time largest national daily...

Jailed Turkish police chiefs who led 2013 corruption ops taken to police HQ in...

Jailed police chiefs who led corruption operations against the government in 2013 were taken to Istanbul police headquarters on Saturday over the testimony of...

Erdoğan’s henchman threatens exiled Turkish journalists with extrajudicial killings

Former speechwriter and a favourite henchman of Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and current ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy Aydın Ünal...

Erdoğan confidant Metin Külünk investigated for al-Qaeda aligned IBDA-C terror group

Metin Külünk, a close confidant of the Turkish president, was investigated as a suspect in Islamist terrorist group the Great Eastern Islamic Raiders Front...

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