COMMENTARY — Erdoğan selected a crook and jihadist enabler as Turkey’s vice president

By Abdullah Bozkurt Fuat Oktay, named vice president in the new Cabinet of Turkish Islamist leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to the surprise of many Turkey...

Turkish gov’t detains 76 supporters of anti-government Islamist foundation

Turkish police detained 79 followers of jailed anti-government Islamist leader Alpaslan Kuytul as they got off a ferry in İstanbul, according to a report...
Sivas Massacre

Victims of 1993 Sivas massacre commemorated

Thirty-three Turkish intellectuals who perished in a fire in 1993 inside the Madımak Hotel were commemorated in Sivas on Thursday, the 27th anniversary of...

Suspected ISIL courier detained in Şanlıurfa

A man suspected of working as a courier for the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) for its suicide attacks has been...

Teacher, lawyer go missing in new wave of post-coup disappearances in Turkey’s capital

Fatih Kılıç, a teacher who was dismissed from his job under post-coup emergency rule, and lawyer Mustafa Özben have been missing for days, joining...

Jailed human rights defender Erkem’s gastric bleeding ignored by Turkish prison doctors

Nalan Erkem, who was among the rights defenders who were jailed after being detained in Büyükada, reportedly exprerienced a gastric bleeding in prison and...

Pakistani authorities still silent over Kaçmaz Family on 6th day of their mysterious abduction

Turkish teacher Mesut Kaçmaz and his family, who were abducted from their home at a midnight in Lahore, are still illegally detained in an...

Turkey’s Erdoğan calls on Jerusalem to be recognised as Palestinian capital

Turkish autocratic Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called on the international community on Wednesday to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of the Palestinian state. “I...

Wife of abducted Ümit Horzum says so scared of that if something happens to...

Aynur Horzum, the wife of Ümit Horzum, who was kidnapped on December 6, 2017 cried out on the government's and people's indifference about his...

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...
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