Two Turkish soldiers killed, one injured in military operations
Two Turkish soldiers were killed and one was wounded on Saturday during operations in Turkey and northwestern Syria, according to the Turkish military.
In a...
Turkish gov’t blocks access to Furkan news portal on alleged terror charges
Access to all social media accounts and websites belonging to the faith-based Furkan Foundation, which has been critical to the Justice and Development Party (AKP)...
Turkish gov’t issues detention warrants for 54 people over alleged links to Gülen movement
Ankara Chief Prosecutor's Office has issued detention warrants for 54 people on Saturday across Turkey for their alleged links to the Gülen movement. The detention...
EP’s Harms visited Turkish educator Çabuk in Georgian prison and his family in Tbilisi
Rebecca Harms, a member of the European Parliament and co-president of the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly visited Mustafa Emre Çabuk, a Turkish school administrator who was...
Syrian Kurdish groups claim Turkish army hit village in Afrin with suspected gas
A Syrian Kurdish group and a pro-Kurdish monitoring group have claimed that the Turkish military carried out a suspected gas attack that wounded six...
Jailed Turkish Air Forces’ colonel reportedly losses his life in İstanbul’s Silivri Prison because...
A Turkish lawyer has stated on Friday that a military officer jailed in İstanbul's notorious Silivri Prison has lost his life because of the...
Turkey’s official Friday sermon glorifies ‘armed jihad’
A sermon sent to Turkey’s 90,000 mosques for Friday prayers by Turkish state religious authorities took as its theme the importance of jihad. “Engaging in...
Int’l press, human rights bodies slam Turkish court’s ruling of aggravated life sentences for...
International press and human rights organisations have slammed a decision rendered by a Turkish court on Friday of aggravated life imprisonment for prominent journalists...
CoE’s Jagland criticises Turkish gov’t over massive human rights violations
The Council of Europe (CoE) Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland has criticised Turkish government's massive human rights violations under the state of emergency during a speech...
Turkish court rules for continuation of former HDP co-chair Demirtaş’s imprisonment
Ankara 19th High Criminal Court within the Sincan Prison Campus has ruled on Friday for the continuation of Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) former Co-chair...
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