Turkey’s Erdoğan threatens Kosovo PM Haradinaj: You will pay the price for this
Autocratic Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan criticised Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj on Saturday for dismissing the country's interior minister and intelligence chief on...
HDP says Turkish gov’t destructs 13 cemeteries where killed PKK militants buried
Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has stated on Friday that Turkish authorities have destructed at least 13 cemeteries where the killed militants of...
Erdoğan’s ultranationalist ally MHP excludes alleged members of Gülen movement from ‘general amnesty’ proposal
The Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), the ultranationalist ally of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government led by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has...
Dismissed Turkish academic Gülmen taken into intensive care on her 202nd day of hunger...
Hunger striker academic Nuriye Gülmen, who has been jailed by Turkish government since May 23, 201, has been taken into intensive care on Monday...
Main opposition CHP’s leader says they will not accept one-man rule in Turkey
Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said they are not going to accept the one-man rule as a justice congress...
Economy Minister Zeybekçi protests detention of Halkbank’s Atilla in US
Turkey’s Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci on Thursday reacted to the detention of Halkbank Deputy General Manager Mehmet Hakan Atilla in the US on charges...
Turkish gov’t detains journalist Öner, former editor of pro-Kurdish Demokratik Modernite magazine
The Turkish government on Friday detained Servet Öner, the former editor of pro-Kurdish monthly magazine Demokratik Modernite, in the Beyoğlu district of İstanbul as...
COMMENTARY — Europe braces itself for Erdoğan’s new push for the Turkish diaspora
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Ahead of both president and parliamentary elections on June 24, 2018, Turkey’s Islamist rulers led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and their...
60-year old man attends ‘March of Justice,’ sleeps outdoors to protest son’s arrest on...
A 60-year-old Turkish man whose son has been held in İstanbul’s Silivri Prison for over 10 months on coup charges participated in a “March...
Turkish Justice Ministry seeks cancelation of dismissed academic’s license to practice law
The Turkish Justice Ministry has filed a complaint against dismissed academic Cenk Yiğiter in an effort to cancel his license to practice law and...
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