Erdoğan advisor likens Turkey purge to Aborigine, Native American, Armenian cases
Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s chief advisor, Mehmet Uçum, has said the Turkish state can apologize to the victims of a post-coup era...
Turkey’s OHAL Commission decides to reinstate only 40 out of 3,110 applicants dismissed by...
The State of Emergency Procedures Investigation Commission (OHAL Commission) has examined the cases of 3,111 applicants, who were dismissed by government decrees under the...
Pro-Kurdish HDP deputy Baydemir briefly detained by Turkish police again
Turkish police has briefly detained Osman Baydemir, a prominent deputy from pr0-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in Ankara on Friday.
It was reported that Baydemir...
Turkish-Armenian journalist Dink commemorated on 11th anniversary of his assassination
Thousands of people flocked on Friday to the former address of Turkish-Armenian weekly newspaper Agos in Şişli district of İstanbul to commemorate the slain...
US could seek $37,5 bln over Turkey’s Halkbank’s violation of Iran sanctions
A demand for as much as $37,5 billion could be the opening move for US authorities seeking to punish Turkey’s state-run Halkbank for violating...
Turkish gov’t sentences 4 more military officers to aggravated life imprisonments over coup attempt
An Ankara court has sentenced four more military officers to aggravated life imprisonment on Thursday for their alleged involvement in the controversial coup attempt...
Turkish gov’t issues detention warrants for 68 labour union leaders over alleged links to...
Turkish government has issued detention warrants on Friday for 68 former labour union leaders as part of its massive post-coup witch campaign targeting alleged members...
The Economist: Diyanet, Turkey’s religious authority, surrenders to political Islam
Turkey’s controversial religious body, Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), has not only ballooned in size but also begun to serve political Islamist aims after 15...
Turkish court again refuses to release journalist Altan despite top court’s ruling
İstanbul’s 26th High Criminal Court on Friday rejected a demand again for release filed by lawyers representing journalist Mehmet Altan despite a decision by...
Turkish government jails two more journalists on ‘terror’ charges
Turkish government has put two more journalists, Veli Büyükşahin and Veli Haydar Güleç from the now-defunct pro-Alevi television channel TV10, behind the bars on Thursday.
Büyükşahin...
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