Turkey extends emergency rule for another three months

Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government extended emergency rule for another three months during a National Security Council (MGK) meeting chaired by...

OSCE says Turkey referendum fell short of international standards, Erdoğan defiant

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) said on Monday that Turkey’s referendum on Sunday lacked equal opportunities, media coverage for the...

EP President says very concerned about possible vote on reinstatement of death penalty in...

Antonio Tajani, president of the European Parliament, on Monday expressed deep concerns about Turkey’s possible plans to hold a public referendum on the reinstatement...

Legitimacy of rigged referendum’s result in Turkey widely questioned by Turks, EU and US

As opposition groups have taken the streets of many Turkish cities to protest allegedly rigged referendum results, both the European Union (EU) and the...

Widespread and systematic election frauds mark on Turkey’s referendum over executive presidency

As polls were closed and vote counting has been continuing in Turkey's historic referendum over shifting political system to an executive presidency with extreme...

Torture from Freedom reports Turkey’s use of torture to suppress political activity

Although an attempted coup in July 15, 2016 has highlighted Turkey’s place in the world as a torturing state, ill-treatment in Turkish prisons has...

Turkey votes over giving extreme powers to autocratic President Erdoğan amid voting frauds

More than 55 million Turkish citizens began voting across the country on Sunday in a historic referendum proposing constitutional changes, including giving extreme and...

US State Department watching, following, monitoring Turkey ‘very closely’

Mark Toner, spokesman for the US Department of State, reiterated many times at a press briefing on Thursday that the United States is “monitoring,”...

İstanbul court re-arrests 12 journalists, releases 1 in a contrived trial

An İstanbul court has re-arrested 12 out of 13 journalists who were re-detained on April 1 as part of an investigation into a July...

Gov’t to purge 300K more civil servants once it wins referendum, CHP deputy says

Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Muharrem İnce claimed on Friday that the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government is planning to...

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