EP votes to cut €70 mln in aid to Turkey over human rights violations

The European Parliament has voted to cut financial support to Turkey by €70 million ($80.8 million) due to concerns over human rights and the...

Carlos Latuff: Erdoğan drags Turkey into a dictatorship in broad daylight

"(Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip) Erdoğan has been dragging Turkey into a dictatorship in broad daylight, before the eyes of the world," said the...

Critical theologian Eliaçık attacked by Turkish Islamist thugs at book fair

İhsan Eliaçık, a Turkish theologian, who is known for his critical stance against Turkish government and autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was assulted by a...

15 police detained over alleged Gülen links in Sakarya

Fifteen police officers were detained in Sakarya province on Sunday over alleged links to the Gülen movement, the Habertürk daily has reported. Police officers are...

Turkey’s witch hunt of critics was expanded to India

Turkey’s relentless campaign to hunt down critics of the Islamist government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan abroad reached as far as India, judicial documents...

Turkish police detain 6 members of Boydak family due to Bank Asya account

Turkish police teams on Thursday detained six members of the Boydak family, prominent industrialists from the Central Anatolian city of Kayseri, on the grounds...

Turkish NGOs bring controversial April 16 referendum to ECtHR agenda

A group of Turkish NGOs, including the Turkish Union of Engineers and Architects’ Chambers (TMMOB), the Halkevleri (Community Centers) and the Alevi Pir Sultan...

Turkish judiciary releases 3 men involved in murder of alleged child kidnapper

Turkish judicial authorities have released three men involved in the killing of a man who had allegedly attempted to abduct two children in İstanbul’s...

Turkish teacher Gökhan Açıkkolu, tortured to death in police custody, would be acquitted if...

Forty-two-year-old Turkish teacher Gökhan Açıkkollu, who was tortured to death under police custody in the wake of a controversial military coup attempt on July 15, 2016...

Italian journalist del Grande detained in southern Turkey

Gabriele del Grande, an Italian journalist working for the ANSA news agency, was detained during security checks in the southern province of Hatay on...
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