Heinous terror attack in Stockholm: 4 people dead as truck ploughs into pedestrians
At least four people were dead and many more injured after a terror attack that saw a hijacked lorry ploughs into pedestrians outside a...
COMMENTARY — Erdogan’s confidante who led armed Islamist group operating in Sweden via UETD
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Metin Külünk, a close confidante of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is the man who is in charge of clandestine operations in...
Mavi Marmara victim’s wife: Erdoğan’s rally not for Jerusalem but for elections
A public rally being held in İstanbul today upon a call from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to condemn the violence that erupted after...
Turkish gov’t issues detention warrants for 58 over links to Kimse Yok Mu charity
Detention warrants were issued for 58 people by the Diyarbakır Chief Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday on accusations that they were linked to the Kimse...
Ümit Horzum becomes latest victim of abductions targeting alleged members of Gülen movement in...
Ümit Horzum, a Turkish citizen who was dismissed from his duty at the Turkish Accreditation Agency (TURKAK) by a government decree on August 2016...
More illegal arms imported from Turkey seized in Nigeria
Less than two weeks after operatives of the Tin-Can Island Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, busted a syndicate that smuggled over 1,000...
Erdoğan’s henchman: Oppression targeting Gülen movement to be more severe after Zarrab case
Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s former speechwriter and current Justice and Development Party (AK Party) deputy Aydın Ünal wrote on Tuesday that the...
Report: Suspicious abductions in Turkey raise fears of state role
A series of mysterious kidnappings in Turkey is bringing back the fear of forced disappearances by state agencies in the mid-1990s, Politico has reported.
According...
Pro-gov’t Turkish daily calls for reimprisonment of Pastor Brunson
The staunchly pro-government Yeni Şafak daily has called on Turkish judicial authorities to reimprison an American Christian pastor in Turkey who was released from...
Turks in South Africa fear abduction by Erdoğan gov’t over alleged Gülen links
“Yesterday we were sitting together, today they call us terrorists. Immediately overnight they changed,” said an obviously distressed Turkish national during an interview with...
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