HDP members, including İstanbul co-chair, arrested in run-up to Turkish snap elections
An İstanbul court ruled to arrest 10 people, including pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) İstanbul branch co-chair Cengiz Çiçek and officials from other branches,...
An assailant defaces Alevi cemevi in Turkey with insults, cursing
An unidentified assailant wrote insulting and curse-filled graffiti on the walls of a cemevi, an Alevi house of worship, in the northwestern province of...
Armenian church in İstanbul trashed by Turkish nationalists
The Surp Takavor Armenian Church in the Kadıköy district of İstanbul was the victim of a nationalist attack overnight, Cumhuriyet reported.
According to the report,...
Pro-Erdoğan group hacks Twitter accounts of EU Commissioner Hahn, former NATO head
The Twitter accounts of European Commissioner for Enlargement Johannes Hahn and NATO's former Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen were taken over by Turkish hacker group Ayyıldız over...
Turkish businessman affiliated with Gülen movement abducted in Baku
Mustafa Ceyhan, a Turkish businessman allegedly affiliated with the Gülen mowement, was reportedly abducted in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku on Thursday as part...
Turkish Parliament speaker threatens HDP deputy with expulsion over phrase ‘Kurdish provinces’
Political Islamist İsmail Kahraman, the speaker of the Turkish Parliament, took strong offense at the use of the phrase "Kurdish provinces" by Metal Danış...
Turkey’s Erdoğanist Maarif Foundation has seized 76 overseas schools affiliated with Gülen movement
The controversial Maarif Foundation, which was established by the Turkish government led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in 2016, has reportedly seized 76 overseas schools affiliated...
Civil servant purged by Turkish gov’t abducted in Ankara, says parent
Orçun Şenyücel, a former public employee who was dismissed from his job at the Competition Authority in 2016, has been abducted by an unknown...
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...
COMMENTARY — The US State Department is still confused about Turkey
By Abdullah Bozkurt
The US State Department appears to have not fully grasped the gravity of the situation in Turkey in the face of a...
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