Erdoğan’s relative sets up group for mobilization in event of coup attempt
Orhan Uzuner, the father-in-law of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s son Bilal, has established an armed group to mobilize the public in the event of...
HDP continues nationwide protest in İstanbul park
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Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputies gathered at a park in İstanbul’s Kadıköy district as part of a series of protests that will continue...
Turkish university student detained for wearing ‘part time hero’ T-shirt
A Çanakkale-based university student, identified as U.A., was rounded up for wearing a T-shirt bearing the words “part time hero,” Turkish media reported on...
EP’s Piri: Turkish people deserve our solidarity in difficult times
Kati Piri, the European Parliament’s rapporteur for Turkey, said on Tuesday the situation in Turkey continues to be worrying and Turkish people deserve the...
FDD report: Turkey’s jailing of Western nationals is ‘hostage diplomacy’
A Washington think tank has warned that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is holding a number of Western nationals in jail to use them...
US Senate committee chairman asks if Turkey has become too dangerous for foreigners to...
Republican Senator Bob Corker, chairman of the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, on Wednesday questioned whether or not it’s safe for foreigners to...
Turkish novelist in self-imposed exile not to return home despite acquittal
Prominent Turkish novelist Aslı Erdoğan, who now lives in self-imposed exile, has said she would not return home to Turkey despite her acquittal last...
Hunger strikers Gülmen, Özakça kept in prison hospital under dire conditions
Imprisoned educators Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, who are on the 145th day of a hunger strike they launched to be able to return...
Kurdish politician sentenced to prison for calling President Erdoğan a misogynist
A former Kurdish parliamentarian jailed in on terrorism charges has been handed down an additional prison sentence for insulting President Tayyip Erdoğan, Reuters reported,...
Turkish gov’t jailed 77,081 people since controversial coup attempt in 2016 over alleged links...
The Turkish government led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan jailed 77,081 people between July 15, 2016 and April 11, 2018 over alleged links to...
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