Threats against Dutch-Turkish Rotterdam politician prompts leave of absence
It is reported by nltimes.nl that a Dutch-Turkish CDA councilor in Rotterdam, Turan Yazır, is taking a leave of absence from his faction due...
Washington police release video of 8 more Erdoğan bodyguards wanted for attack
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The Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department released a video on Saturday of eight more “persons of interest” believed to be in Turkey's autocratic President...
EP president criticizes removal of HDP deputy Zana’s parliamentary status
Antonio Tajani, president of the European Parliament, has released a statement on Twitter criticizing the Friday removal of the parliamentary status of pro-Kurdish Peoples’...
Kosovo President Thaci: Arrest of Gülen movement members was wrong
Kosovar President Hashim Thaci in a televised interview with T7 admitted for the first time that the arrest and deportation of six Turkish men...
Erdoğan’s henchmen call on Turkish gov’t to seize assets of all Gülen movement followers...
Journalists Cem Küçük and Fuat Uğur, staunch supporters of Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, called on the government to seize all assets of...
Court charges jailed US pastor with attempting to destroy constitutional order in Turkey
A Turkish court on Thursday charged American pastor Andrew Brunson, who was jailed in Turkey in October due to alleged links to the faith-based Gülen...
Family leaves Suruç after losing 3 members in dispute with politician from Turkey’s ruling...
A family that lost three members in June in a deadly confrontation with Turkey's ruling party deputy has decided to leave their hometown in...
DC Police to pursue charges for violence involving Erdoğan’s bodyguards
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The Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, D.C., has issued a statement on a physical altercation that took place outside the Turkish Embassy on Tuesday...
US Pastor Brunson denies allegations of links with Gülen movement as his trial begins...
US Pastor Andrew Brunson on Monday denied allegations of any links to the Gülen movement as he went on trial in a case that...
Turkish ultra-nationalists hurl stones at İstanbul synagogue
A group of ultra-nationalists affiliated with the Alperen Hearths, an offshoot of the Turkish nationalist movement called the Grey Wolves (Ülkü Ocakları), gathered in...
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