Turkish gendarme detains 6 people as trying to flee from Turkey to Greece
Turkish border security guards have detained 6 people who were allegedly trying to flee from Turkey to Greece on the border zone over their...
Policeman suspended by Turkish gov’t reportedly dies while working as construction worker
Lokman Keleş, a Konya-based police officer who was suspended as part of the government’s post-coup purge of state institutions, died after falling from a...
Turkey’s Erdoğan claims Western media smearing him as they did Atatürk
Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Saturday has claimed the Western media have been negatively portraying him as they did in the past...
İHD and TİHV: 2,278 people tortured, 11 people abducted in Turkey in 2017
The Human Rights Association (İHD) and the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) on Saturday said 2,278 people were tortured and 11 abducted in...
Forbes on Zarrab case: Erdoğan’s family members and his cronies will possibly unable to...
Forbes, an influential American bi-weekly business magazine, has reported on Friday that if Turkey's ruling elite comes under US sanctions that will put Turkish autocratic...
Turkish asylum seekers in Greece tell of lives full of fear in Erdoğan’s Turkey
German media outlet Deutsche Welle (DW) has written that "fear and uncertainty has been spreading in Turkey for years," as it reported on Turks' reflections...
Steudtner: Detained activists in Turkey face ‘unfair’ judicial system
Turkey is failing to adhere to normal judicial practices by keeping political prisoners held without indictment and by having their trials repeatedly postponed, human rights activist...
Swedish Left Party head Sjöstedt says Turkish police threatened him to arrest
The chairman of the Swedish Left Party and parliamentarian Jonas Sjöstedt has said Turkish police threatened him to arrest in Ankara where he attempted...
Turkish gov’t dismisses opposition mayor over graft probe
The Interior Ministry of Justice and Development Party (AKP) government, which is under the rule of autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has announced on...
Journalists ordered to be kept in jail in Turkey’s largest press freedom case
In Turkey’s largest freedom of press case where prominent journalists and authors were tried on dubious charges, the court ruled to keep them in...
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