İYİ Party member detained by Turkish police for tweet claiming Halkbank to be fined...
An İstanbul court has ruled for the pretrial detention of Kerim Yılmaz, a High Advisory Board member of the İYİ Party, over a tweet...
Turkish election board refuses to allow Demirtaş to participate in political TV show by...
Turkey’s Supreme Election Board (YSK) on Wednesday refused a request by Selahattin Demirtaş, the jailed presidential candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), to...
US State Department highlights Turkish gov’t’s violations of religious rights in its 2017 report
The US State Department has highlighted the massive violations of religious freedom and rights by Turkish government across the country in 2017 in its...
Turkish court extends arrest warrant for neo-nationalist Sözcü daily’s owner over Gülen links
An outstanding arrest warrant for Burak Akbar, the proprietor of the neo-nationalist Sözcü daily, was extended by a Turkish court in İstanbul on Wednesday.
Akbay faces...
Turkish Interior Minister Soylu says pro-Kurdish presidential candidate Demirtaş belongs in jail
Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said on Tuesday that Selahattin Demirtaş, the jailed presidential candidate of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), fitted the...
Turkish court gives aggravated life sentences to 7 military officers over transfer of cadets...
Seven out of 16 military officers who stood trial for the transfer of Turkish Air Force Academy cadets from Yalova to İstanbul on the...
Turkish Deputy PM Bozdağ: Turkish people are smarter than France’s Macron
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdağ on Wednesday said there are people working to discredit Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ahead of the June...
Turkish gov’t detains 29 people for depositing money in now-closed Bank Asya
The Turkish government detained 29 people out of 59 warrants issued in Ankara on Wednesday for depositing money in private lender Bank Asya, which...
Pro-Kurdish HDP’s Demirtaş: Europe has abandoned Turkey’s democratic forces
Selahattin Demirtaş, the former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) who has been behind bars since November 2016 and is running as...
COMMENTARY — Erdoğan made Turkey’s Kurdish problem worse
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Having deliberately undermined two initiatives to address Turkey’s longstanding Kurdish problem during its 16 years of rule, the government of President Recep...
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