Erdoğan says Fethullah Gülen will be abducted just like 6 Turks in Kosovo
Autocratic Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, who lives in the US, will face the same end as...
EU report: Turkey’s ruling AKP commissioned ISIL for Ankara massacre
A report by the European Union's official intelligence body, EU INTCEN, has suggested that the October 10, 2015 suicide bombing of a peace march outside the...
UN report details large-scale human rights abuses in Afrin under Turkish military control
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in a monthly report for June details large-scale human rights abuses in areas under...
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...
Former Turkish deputy PM: The death of America is nearing
Former Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Hakan Çavuşoğlu said the United States would soon be finished and that Turkey does not fear the power of...
Posters of Turkish President Erdoğan used in anti-racist campaign in Switzerland
The Socialist Party (SP) of Switzerland is running a counter-campaign to a racist initiative in the country with the motto, “We don’t want a...
COMMENTARY — Erdoğan shields Hizb ut-Tahrir from criminal prosecution in Turkey
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Hizb ut-Tahrir, an outlawed group that calls for the reinstatement of the caliphate that was abolished in Turkey, was recently given a...
Turkish far-right group beat Afghan man and shared video on social media
A new Turkish far-right group shared a video on social media yesterday showing one of their members beating an Afghan refugee in an apparent...
Turkey is no longer a country governed by the rule of law, says a...
In a new report unveiled today as part of continuing series that focus on human rights violations and arbitrariness in the application of the...
EU calls on Turkey to investigate abduction cases targeting Gülen movement
The European Union (EU) on Thursday said it was closely following developments in Turkey including the abductions of people from the Gülen movement, reminding...
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