Minister son-in-law of Turkey’s Erdoğan: I would strangle Gülen supporters wherever I see them

https://youtu.be/1OJZU71gWB0 Addressing university students being sent abroad on scholarships, autocratic President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s son-in-law and Energy and Natural Resources Minister Berat Albayrak...

Senegalese students worried over transfer of Gülen-affiliated schools to Turkey’s Islamist Maarif Foundation

Parents of Senegalese children attending schools run by followers of  the Gülen (Hizmet) movement, which was inspired by moderate views of US-based Turkish Muslim...

Turkish court decides to release 12 ISIL suspects on Wednesday

A high criminal court in İstanbul on Wednesday decided to release 12 out of 35 suspects who are standing trial on charges of membership...

UN body asks Turkey to compensate businessman arrested, tortured in post-coup crackdown

The United Nations’ Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD), which works under UN Human Rights Council, has called on Turkish government to compensate a...

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...

Another dismissed public employee abducted in broad daylight in Turkey’s capital Ankara

Yet another victim of the Turkish government's massive post-coup witch hunt campaign targeting the alleged members of the Gülen movemenet was abducted by forcinh...

HDP members, including İstanbul co-chair, arrested in run-up to Turkish snap elections

An İstanbul court ruled to arrest 10 people, including pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) İstanbul branch co-chair Cengiz Çiçek and officials from other branches,...

Turkish Foreign Ministry delivers diplomatic note to US ambassador over violence in DC

Turkey’s Foreign Ministry on Monday summoned US Ambassador to Ankara John Bass to deliver a diplomatic note over a melee outside the Turkish diplomatic...

Greece condemns Islamic religious ceremony in İstanbul’s Hagia Sophia

Greece on Thursday criticized an Islamic religious ceremony held at Hagia Sophia in İstanbul on Wednesday night that was broadcast on television and attended...

Turkish mayor built martyrs’ cemetery ‘just in case’ someone from town martyred

A Turkish mayor ordered the establishment of a martyrs’ cemetery in a town in northern Gümüşhane province in the event some youths from the...

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