President Erdoğan: Opposition has polluted Turkish Parliament
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who is also the leader of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), accused the main opposition Republican People’s...
Newly launched book tells stories of purge victims after Turkey’s July 15 coup
A recently published book tells the stories of people who, following a military coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016, were victims of...
Turkish gov’t to introduce Internet censorship with ban on sex cult leader’s broadcasts
The Turkish government is planning to grant the authority to censor Internet TV channels to Turkey’s Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) under the...
COMMENTARY — Turkey is levying taxes on UN aid funds destined for the needy
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Although the Turkish government brags about how it has spent $30 billion on refugees, which many believe to be an inflated figure,...
Court orders stay of controversial police regulation banning recordings at protests
The Council of State, Turkey’s highest administrative court, has ruled for a stay of execution of a controversial regulation issued by the country’s Security...
Report: Turkish government detained at least 187 journalists in 2017
At least 187 journalists were detained by Turkish government in 2017, according to a report released by Free Journalists Initiative (ÖGİ) in Diyarbakır on Wednesday.
Holding...
Turkey’s main opposition leader says he is not intimidated by Erdoğan’s arrest threats
In response to threats of arrest made by Turkey's autocratic President and Chairman of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,...
Pro-Kurdish HDP deputy Yıldırım to be stripped of parliamentary status for insulting Erdoğan
Ahmet Yıldırım, deputy from the pro-Kurdish Democratic Peoples’ Party (HDP), will be stripped of his parliamentary status after his conviction on charges of insulting...
Pro-gov’t Star daily says jailed Die Welt reporter ‘not a journalist, a PKK hit-man’
The front page of the pro-government Star daily on Thursday bore a headline that targeted jailed Die Welt reporter Deniz Yücel saying he is...
Report: Flynn’s firm produced an unfinished anti-Gülen documentary
Former US national security adviser Michael Flynn’s lobbying firm produced an unfinished documentary last fall to boost Turkey’s image and defame US-based Turkish Islamic...
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