COMMENTARY — Turkey deals yet another blow to the anti-ISIL battle

By Abdullah Bozkurt The declaration of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, ISIS or Daesh by its Arabic acronym) as a “project...

Freedom House’s Schenkkan: Turkish government’s abductions in Kosovo shocking offense against int’l HR standards

The Turkish government's abduction of six Turkish nationals from Kosovo is “a shocking offense against both international human rights standards and bilateral norms,” wrote...

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...

Kosovo PM Haradinaj visits wives of abducted Turkish teachers

Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj has paid a visit to the wives of six Turkish teachers who on March 29 were abducted and flown...

Cellmate: Teacher abducted by Turkey’s MİT from Malaysia subjected to torture in Ankara

Alaettin Duman, a teacher in Malaysia who in 2016 was abducted by agents of the notorious Turkish National Intelligence Organisation (MİT) from Malaysia's capital...

Turkey’s Islamist President Erdoğan recites prayer at the Hagia Sophia

Turkey's Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan recited an Islamic prayer on Saturday in the Hagia Sophia museum, a historic İstanbul landmark that has become...

Turkey’s Erdoğan threatens Kosovo PM Haradinaj: You will pay the price for this

Autocratic Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan criticised Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj on Saturday for dismissing the country's interior minister and intelligence chief on...

Abduction of 6 Turks in Kosovo point to Turkish embassies’ key role in illegal...

The recent abduction of six Turkish nationals who were affiliated with the Gülen movement in Kosovo has confirmed the key role of Turkish embassies...

Local sources say 6 abducted Gülen movement followers still in Kosovo

Six people who used to work at schools affiliated with the Gülen movement are still being held in Kosovo, according to reliable local sources. The...

Families: Women detained over alleged Gülen links subjected to maltreatment under Turkish police custody

The families of women detained in operations ordered by provincial Chief of Police Cengiz Zeybek and Governor Ersin Yazıcı between March 26-29 in a...

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