Turkey orders detention of 146 people over alleged Gülen links in a week

Turkish authorities have over the past week ordered the detention of 146 people including former civil servants, active duty and dismissed military and police...

Turkish lawyer Altıparmak: Alpay decision tactical move to avoid ECtHR rulings

Turkish human rights lawyer and academic Kerem Altıparmak said on Saturday that a Constitutional Court decision and subsequent release of veteran journalist Şahin Alpay...

Turkish gov’t detains more than 70 women over alleged financial support for jailed Gülen...

The Turkish government detained more than 70 women on Wednesday evening in five Turkish provinces as part of a Balıkesir-based investigation targeting alleged members...

Turkish President Erdoğan says savage Khashoggi killing was planned

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Tuesday there were strong signs Jamal Khashoggi’s savage killing was planned and that attempts to blame it...

Turkish police wait to detain another women just hours after delivery

Turkish government, which has imprisoned at least 700 babies so far, is now trying to imprison one more mother together with her newly born...

28 EP members send letter to Kosovo’s Thaçi and Haradinaj over 6 abducted Turkish...

Twenty-eight members of the European Parliament sent a letter on Monday to Kosovo President Hashim Thaçi and Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj on the...

Turkish gov’t presses Afghanistan to hand over control of Gülen-linked schools

Afghan authorities have drafted a deal giving the Turkish government control of more than a dozen schools in Afghanistan affiliated with Turkish Islamic scholar...

COMMENTARY — Erdoğan saves jihadist network: The Vasat terror group in Turkey

By Abdullah Bozkurt One of the most devastating impacts the Islamist government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has inflicted on the national security of Turkey...

Pro-gov’t daily: Turkey, Russia could conduct joint operation to abduct Fethullah Gülen

Turkey and Russia could carry out a joint operation to abduct US-based Turkish-Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen to Turkey due to Gülen’s alleged role in...

Switzerland probes Turkish diplomats’ plot to kidnap pro-Gülen businessman

Switzerland is investigating whether Turkish diplomats planned to drug and kidnap a Swiss-Turkish businessman who is an alleged member of the Gülen movement, as...

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