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...
An assailant defaces Alevi cemevi in Turkey with insults, cursing
An unidentified assailant wrote insulting and curse-filled graffiti on the walls of a cemevi, an Alevi house of worship, in the northwestern province of...
Turkish TV watchdog fines music station over song by Rihanna
Turkey's state media watchdog, the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), fined two music stations last week over what it deemed explicit content in the...
Victims of Sivas Massacre commemorated on its 25th anniversary
The Sivas Massacre, an arson attack carried out by an extremist mob on mostly Alevi intellectuals inside the Madımak Hotel that killed 33 intellectuals...
German-Kurdish footballer Naki accuses Özil of hypocrisy on racism
Deniz Naki, a Kurdish footballer who has been targeted by the Turkish government led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for his political views in...
Turkish prosecutor demands life sentence for jailed journalist Ilıcak for exposing documents on radical...
A Turkish prosecutor on Thursday demanded that a court hand down a life sentence to Turkish journalist Nazlı Ilıcak (73) for publishing an alleged...
Turkish military operation footage screened in stadium before Amedspor match
Footage of a Turkish military operation against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) was projected on the scoreboard of a stadium on Saturday, just...
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