10 arrested for ‘insulting’ President Erdoğan during referendum protest and on social media
Seven people were arrested for insulting Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during protests held in İzmir in the aftermath of an April 16...
Georgia detains a Turkish educator at request of Turkish PM Yıldırım during his visit
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Georgia has detained Mustafa Emre Çabuk, a Turkish educator who has lived in Georgia and has served for Georgian people for last 15 years on Wednesday...
Turkish teacher, diagnosed with cancer after dismissal over alleged Gülen links, dies
An Adana-based teacher who was removed from her job as part of the Turkish government’s post-coup crackdown targeting alleged members of the Gülen movement...
Turkish court rules to re-detain 12 lawyers one day after releasing them
A Turkish court that had ruled for the release of 17 lawyers, most of whom have been imprisoned since September 2017 on accusations of...
COMMENTARY — The case of Turkish journalist İbrahim Karayeğen under torture and abuse
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Among all the 250 journalists who are currently languishing behind bars in Turkey under abusive conditions in which torture and ill-treatment are...
AKP member posts picture of machine gun, says awaiting orders from Turkey’s Erdoğan to...
Mehmet Aybek, a member of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) youth wing, on Thursday shared a photo on Facebook of an MP5 machine...
Turkish gov’t detained 2,426 people in January over alleged links to Gülen movement
The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that 623 people have been detained in one week over their alleged links to the faith-based Gülen...
EU cuts funds for Turkey’s membership bid as a solid warning to Ankara over...
The European Union is set to cut up to 175 million euros for Turkey in 2018 that are linked to Ankara’s stalled bid to...
Turkish authorities reportedly exhume corpses of 267 Kurdish militants in Garzan cemetery
Turkish authorities have reportedly exhumed 267 corpses, which were belong to Kurdish militants who were mostly killed as they fought against radical Islamist terror group...
Staffing becomes family affair at Turkish public university
A Turkish public university has come under criticism after every one of eight job openings supposedly allocated by examination went to close family members...
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