COMMENTARY — Hamid Abdullah Al-Ahmar: Erdoğan’s errand boy in the Arab world
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Sheikh Hamid Abdullah Al-Ahmar, an Arab politician and millionaire businessman whose family led the Muslim Brotherhood network in Yemen, has been tapped...
At least 3 victims of Erdoğan’s persecution targeting Gülen movement drowned as trying to...
At least three victims of the massive post-coup persecution of Turkish government, led by autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, targeting the alleged members of...
Widow of slain Turkish general says July 15 shrouded in mystery, facts should come...
Nazire Terzi, the widow of Brig. Gen. Semih Terzi, who was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Monday, has said the night of...
Turkish court sentences main opposition CHP’s deputy Berberoğlu for 5 years in prison
Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party's (CHP) jailed deputy Enis Berberoğlu was sentenced on Tuesday to 5 years and 10 months in prison. The...
Academic Özcerit, who jailed by Turkish gov’t over Gülen links, passes away after diagnosed...
Ass. Profesor Ahmet Turan Özcerit, who used to work at Sakarya University’s Faculty of Computer and Information Science until he was first arrested and...
Pakistani rights activist and lawyer Asma Jilani Jahangir dies at 66
Pakistani human rights activist Asma Jilani Jahangir, who faced death threats by fighting for unpopular causes and was jailed in the 1980s for her...
Survey: 1,2 million people victimised by emergency rule in Turkey
A survey conducted by Turkish rights group has showed that over 1,2 million people were badly affected by losing their economic status, property or...
Pro-Erdoğan TV presenter threatens Cumhuriyet daily over Afrin story
Yusuf Ozan, a presenter for the pro-government Akit TV, on Sunday targeted the Cumhuriyet daily over a story it ran on the Afrin operation...
German police killed member of ultra-nationalist Turkish gang Osmanen Germania in Wuppertal
A member of ultra-nationalist Turkish gang, Osmanen Germania, was shot and killed by German police during a raid in the city of Wuppertal on Friday,...
Turkish gov’t accused of recruiting, retraining ISIL militants to attack Afrin
The Turkish government has been recruiting and retraining jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants in its ongoing offensive in Afrin...
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