Turkish police confiscate Islamic books, Bible as terror evidence
A number Islamic books by Turkish-Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, a Bible and some other religious publications including the one on Jesus Christ have been...
CoE’s Muižnieks expresses dismay at conviction of activist Çelikkan in Turkey
Nils Muižnieks, the Council of Europe’s (CoE) commissioner for human rights has voiced his disappointment over a court decision on Monday to hand down...
Turkey’s main opposition leader says expelled educators on hunger strike being forced to die
Leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has broken his silence about two educators who went on a hunger strike...
DC Police to pursue charges for violence involving Erdoğan’s bodyguards
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The Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, D.C., has issued a statement on a physical altercation that took place outside the Turkish Embassy on Tuesday...
23 detained in operation at Koza-İpek Holding including two journalists in Turkey
Turkish police teams on Wednesday detained 23 employees of Koza-İpek Holding, including journalists Hasan Bozkurt and Metin Arslan who worked for the media outlets...
Two Turkish generals applied for asylum in Germany
Two Turkish generals who are accused of taking part in a failed military coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016 applied for asylum...
Mother of three arrested with baby as Turkish police fail to locate her husband
Fadime Danışman, a mother of three in the western province of İzmir, was arrested along with her 8-month-old baby after police failed to locate...
More academics, people sent to jail as part of Turkey’s post-coup witch hunt
More people including 14 academics from Eskisehir Osmangazi University (ESOGÜ) have been jailed as part of a post-coup witch hunt campaign targeting the Gülen...
Bodyguards, fanatics of Turkey’s Erdoğan attack protesters in Washington
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Nine people were hurt and two were detained during an altercation in front of Turkey's Ambassador to US, Serdar Kılıç’s residence in Washington DC on...
US President Trump asks Turkey’s Erdoğan to release jailed American pastor Brunson
The White House has announced that US President Donald Trump has asked visiting Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to release Andrew Craig Brunson, an...
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