Widow of DBP official says she witnessed husband’s murder in Turkish hospital

Emine Şenyaşar, who lost a husband, an official of the Democratic Regions Party (DBP), and two sons on June 14 in the Suruç district...

COMMENTARY — Erdoğan inching closer to going nuclear

By Abdullah Bozkurt On July 2, 2018, immediately after a questionable win in national and presidential elections, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan issued a law-decree...

Turkish president’s spokesman slams Newsweek for article targeting Erdoğan

İbrahim Kalın, the spokesperson for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has slammed a Newsweek article harshly criticising Erdoğan, calling it “one of the worst pieces...

COMMENTARY — Turkey’s intel agency turned over a Syrian colonel to the Assad regime

By Abdullah Bozkurt Hakan Fidan, the pro-Iranian Islamist who has been running Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) since May 2010, protected intelligence officers who were...

COMMENTARY — CoE asks Erdoğan to stop promoting political Islam in Europe

By Abdullah Bozkurt The multinational proposal tabled last year by the parliamentarians of the Council of Europe (CoE), the large intergovernmental organization that champions democracy,...

Turkish intelligence agency used a family-owned business to provide supplies for ISIS

Abdullah Bozkurt Two Turkish nationals and their company, recently sanctioned by the US Treasury for aiding and abetting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria...

Abducted teacher in Turkey turns up in police detention after 42 days of torture...

A philosophy teacher who was abducted in Turkish capital on a broad daylight in April and reported missing by his wife turned up in...

BBC report: Women with 6-month-old infants in jail due to emergency rule in Turkey

Hundreds of women are in pretrial detention in jails across Turkey with their infants, some of them less than six months old, due to...

Turkish gov’t puts 669th baby behind bars over his parents’ alleged links to Gülen...

Turkish government put the 669th baby behind the bars as his father and mother were arrested and sent to jail as part of massive...

Turkish gov’t detains 11 doctors, TTB central council members, over their remarks on Afrin...

Turkish government has detained 11 members of the Turkish Medical Association's (TTB) central council, including TTB head Raşit Tükel, on Tuesday for their statement...
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