HRW: EU should tell Erdoğan no deeper economic cooperation without end to crackdown
A meeting planned for Thursday between European Union leaders and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan should signal that discussion of upgraded economic cooperation is...
Kurdish-speaking Turkish soldier severely beaten by comrades, hospitalised
A soldier was beaten unconscious and put in a coma by two other soldiers he was serving alongside after a campaign of bullying for...
Turkish top court paves the way for destruction of ancient town of Hasankeyf
The 12,000-year-old Hasankeyf settlement in Turkey’s southeast is on the verge of complete destruction, after a Constitutional Court ruling gave the final go-ahead for...
Swiss Freethinkers bestows ‘Free Thought Award’ to jailed journalist, artist Zehra Doğan
Switzerland's Freethinkers, a nonprofit organisation for free thought, will bestow the Free Thought Award to jailed Kurdish journalist and artist Zehra Doğan, who has been kept in Diyarbakır...
Report on violation of women prisoners’ rights: Turkish jails turned into ‘prisoners camp’
A report, released by the Free Women’s Movement (TJA), has stated that the society has been put under suppression through the state of emergency (OHAL)...
Coup suspects to appear in courts in special uniforms, Turkish Deputy PM says
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş said on Monday that Justice Ministry officials are working to design a special uniform for suspects who are...
Critical German-Turkish politician to attend Erdoğan state dinner to send ‘signal’
Germany's Opposition Green party politician Cem Özdemir, who is of Turkish descent and has repeatedly slammed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s policies, is to...
Turkish prosecutors launch Gülen probe over Galatasaray fans’ Rocky poster
Turkish prosecutors have launched an investigation on Tuesday after fans of Galatasaray football team unfurled a giant poster ahead of a derby on Sunday...
Thousands of CHP supporters hold sit-in protest in Taksim against OHAL
Thousands of supporters of the Turkey main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) held a sit-in in İstanbul’s Taksim area on Monday protesting government plans...
Turkey’s TMSF controls 937 companies seized by Turkish gov’t over alleged Gülen links
Nine hundred thirty-seven companies with TL 19,4 billion (about 3,5 billion euros) in equity and assets of TL 50 billion (about 9 billion euros)...
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