Pro-gov’t journalist implies assassination for Turkey’s main opposition leader
Fatih Tezcan, a pro-government public speaker and columnist, on Monday implied that main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu would be assassinated...
CHP deputy Tanrıkulu says he is receiving death threats after remarks on armed drone...
Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Sezgin Tanrıkulu has said he is receiving death threats following his remarks on the use of...
Illegal deportation of Kaçmaz Family to Turkey protested in front of Pakistani embassies
People protested the abduction and the illegal deportation of Turkish educator Mesut Kaçmaz and his family from Pakistan to Turkey at request of Turkish autocratic...
Mother and son phone conversation reveals Turkish guardians in murder of Kurdish prisoner
A telephone conversation regarding 40-year old Kurdish prisoner in Balıkesir’s Kepsut prison beaten to within an inch of his life has revealed recently that...
Turkish lawyer detained, beaten and abandoned by ‘police’
Turkish lawyer Burak Mengü, the brother of journalist and renowned TV news presenter Nevşin Mengü and the son of a former parliamentarian from Turkey's...
28 EP members send letter to Kosovo’s Thaçi and Haradinaj over 6 abducted Turkish...
Twenty-eight members of the European Parliament sent a letter on Monday to Kosovo President Hashim Thaçi and Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj on the...
Turkish dean dismissed after allowing opposition candidate onto Cerrahpaşa campus
Alaattin Duran, the dean of İstanbul University's Cerrahpaşa Faculty of Medicine, was removed from his job several hours after Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP)...
COMMENTARY — Erdoğan gov’t turns to rape as a political weapon in Turkey
By Abdullah Bozkurt
As part of an escalating crackdown on the right to dissent, on criticism and on opposition voices in Turkey in recent years,...
Pro-gov’t journalist says Turkish gov’t readying for operations against other religious groups
Nevzat Çiçek, a pro-government journalist, has said Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate and state intelligence agencies are conducting significant research on religious communities in Turkey...
Erdoğanist Turkish lawyers seek arrest of US officers at Turkey’s İncirlik Airbase
A group of pro-Erdoğan Turkish lawyers has applied to the Adana Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office for the arrest of members of the US military...
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