Kurdish journalist/artist Zehra Doğan sends letter of gratitude to Banksy from Turkish prison

Imprisoned Kurdish-Turkish artist and journalist Zehra Doğan has expressed her gratitude for a tribute by a painter in New York as well as revealing...

English PEN urges Turkey to drop charges against publisher Ragıp Zarakolu

English PEN, the founding center of a global literary network, has urged Turkish authorities to drop all charges against publisher and human rights activist...

Report: EU countries working to block Turkey from hosting NATO summit

Eighteen EU countries and Canada will fight for Belgium to host the 2018 NATO summit instead of Turkey, according to a report in the...

Woman whose family died fleeing Turkey detained over Gülen links

Gülfem Yeni, whose husband and two children died two years ago in the Aegean Sea while fleeing oppression in Turkey, was detained on Friday...

German federal police warn lawmakers of possible Turkish spying

German federal police have warned parliamentarians they may have been spied on by Turkish intelligence and may also face potential security risks from Turkish...

Turkish opposition leader’s lawyer: Prosecutor asked me why I cancelled my cable subscription

Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu’s lawyer, Celal Çelik, who was released on Friday after 14 days of detention over...

Turkish baby girl, whose mother was detained right after she was born, now growing...

Ahmet Naim & Bahar Çelebi, Athens Turkey recognized her in September 2017 with police officers waiting at the door of a delivery room. Her name...

Demirtaş, former co-chair of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish HDP, says he is tried with political motivation

Selahattin Demirtaş, the imprisoned former co-chair of pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), has started to deliver his defense on Wednesday at a Turkish court...

Turkish journalist detained again for covering alleged judicial corruption

Furkan Karabay, an editor for the Gerçek Gündem news website, has been detained by the İstanbul police on accusations of “targeting officials fighting against...

Turkish gov’t launches probe into ODTÜ students for unfurling rainbow flag at graduation

An investigation has been launched into more than 20 students at the Ankara-based Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) for unfurling a rainbow flag at...
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