Turkey’s pro-gov’t media reports Kaçmaz family abducted by Pakistani authorities
The controversy persists over the abduction of Mesut Kaçmaz, the director of Pak-Turk School, and his family members in Pakistan and their illegal deportation...
SAR’s report shows Turkey is global leader in attacks against academia
Scholars, academic staff and students across the globe continue to face threats while Turkey has been singled out as the home to the highest...
Education minister says evolution is out, concept of jihad is in new curriculum in...
Turkish Education Minister İsmet Yılmaz has said a new national school curriculum will exclude evolution theory but will include the concept of jihad, or...
Human Rights Watch: Turkish border guards shoot, block fleeing Syrians
Turkish guards at the border with Syria are indiscriminately shooting at and summarily returning asylum seekers attempting to cross into Turkey, New York-based Human...
Turkish businessman affiliated with Gülen movement abducted in Baku
Mustafa Ceyhan, a Turkish businessman allegedly affiliated with the Gülen mowement, was reportedly abducted in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku on Thursday as part...
Human rights situation in parts of Syria under Turkish control is grim: UN rights...
The human rights situation in parts of northern Syria under the control of Turkish forces and Turkish-affiliated armed groups is “grim, with violence and...
Turkish city decides to change name of ‘NATO Yolu Street’ as reaction to NATO
The name of "NATO Yolu Street" in Zile district of Turkey's Tokat province was changed to "Ata Street" by the Assembly of Zile Municipality...
US National Security Adviser McMaster: Qatar, Turkey new sponsors of radical ideology
Turkey and Qatar are the new sponsors of radical Islamist ideology in the Middle East, US National Security Adviser General HR McMaster was quoted as...
42,1 percent think Turkish lira depreciating due to foreign plot against Turkey
According to a recent poll, 42,1 percent of the Turkish public believes that the loss in value of the Turkish lira against the US...
Computer science professor, jailed in Turkish government’s post-coup sweep, gets cancer diagnosis in prison
Under pre-trial arrest for 13 months over alleged links to the Gülen movement, Ahmet Turan Özcerit, who used to be an associate professor at...
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