Turkish gov’t detains at least 43 people over alleged links to Gülen movement
Turkish government has detained at least 43 people as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt campaign targeting alleged members of the Gülen movement...
İstanbul Governor’s Office interferes in Armenian patriarchal election
The İstanbul Governor’s Office interfered in the Armenian Patriarchate election on Wednesday by sending a notice stating that it was “legally impossible” to start...
Turkey’s top court rejects demand for opening of Hagia Sophia to Muslim prayer
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has rejected an application which claimed that failing to open the country’s historic Hagia Sophia museum to Muslim prayer violates freedom...
Report: Erdoğan constructing new regime in Turkey by gov’t decrees under rule of emergency
Brussels-based Platform for Peace and Justice (PPJ) has released a new report and underlined that a new regime is being built by the Justice and...
Alaattin Güner: Major newspaper distribution company executive faces lifetime in jail on absurd charges
A media professional who had managed Turkey’s largest home delivery network for independent and critical newspapers is now being tried on charges of terrorism...
COMMENTARY — Erdoğan gov’t encourages vigilante violence in Turkey
By Abdullah Bozkurt
The Turkish government has not only disregarded major criticism directed at the most controversial article of state of emergency decrees, which provides...
Abduction of 6 Turks in Kosovo point to Turkish embassies’ key role in illegal...
The recent abduction of six Turkish nationals who were affiliated with the Gülen movement in Kosovo has confirmed the key role of Turkish embassies...
Diyanet imams spied on Gülen sympathizers in Romania
A report published by The Black Sea news website on Saturday revealed that imams from Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) spied on people sympathetic...
Turkey says Kurdish referendum by KRG illegitimate, null and void
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım on Sunday declared a vote for independence to be held on Monday by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) “null...
Yet another mysterious abduction by a black van in Turkey’s capital
Hasan Kala, an academic who was fired from his job at Çankırı Karatekin University by a government decree under a state of emergency declared...
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