Turkey’s Erdoğan gears up his anti-Semitic rhetoric as targeting KRG’s Barzani
Turkey’s autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan continued on Thursday to associate Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) referendum on independence from Iraq with Jews and Israel...
Turkish security forces strip naked 7 people during detention in anti-PKK operation
Seven people were stripped naked with their hands tied on their back before they were detained as part of an investigation into the outlawed...
Pro-gov’t Turkish satire magazine deletes provocative cartoon upon public outcry
Pro-government Turkish satirical magazine Misvak has removed a cartoon depicting Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his ultranationalist ally Nationalist Movement Party (MHP)...
Report: Germany to pay 300K euros to Erdoğanist spy organization DİTİB
The German government will reportedly pay 297,750 euros to controversial Religious Affairs Turkish-Islamic Union (DİTİB) which has close ties with Turkey's Erdoğan regime and...
594 young children growing up in Turkish prisons
Five hundred ninety-four children under the age of 6 are being kept with their mothers in Turkish prisons, Turkey’s Ministry of Justice said, the...
Human rights NGOs: Turkish police torture, threaten lawyer with rape of family members
The Human Rights Association (İHD) and the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) held a press conference on Tuesday regarding allegations of the torture...
Turkish policemen beat Antalya woman with baton while she is pinned to floor
A cellphone video shared in social media shows two police officer in Antalya repeatedly striking a woman with baton has prompted investigation, authorities announced...
Report claims PKK militant captured alive, tortured and executed by Turkish soldiers
Pro-Kurdish media outlets have claimed that a militant from the ranks of the outlawed armed Peoples’ Defence Forces (HPG), which is an offspring of the...
Bizarre trial of veteran Turkish journalist Mehmet Özdemir who faces life time in jail
Award winning journalist who have worked his way up from being an intern reporter to a senior editor in Turkey’s one-time largest national daily...
Turkish gov’t removes Kurdish novelist & poet Uzun’s name from Diyarbakır’s park
Turkish government has reportedly removed the name of a famous Kurdish-Swedish novelist and poet Mehmed Uzun from a public park in Diyarbakır province in...
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