Let’s not be late for reinstatement of death penalty, MHP leader Bahçeli says

Leader of Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Devlet Bahçeli has called on the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government and Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip...

Steinmeier slams Erdoğan, says he risks destroying everything achieved in Turkey

Germany's newly elected President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has slammed Turkey’s autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and said that he risks destroying everything Turkey has achieved...

Jailed Halkbank executive wants 15 Turkish witnesses to testify in Zarrab case in US

Mehmet Hakan Atilla, a deputy general manager of Turkish public lender Halkbank, who was arrested in the US in March 2017 on charges of...

Report: Turkey’s conflicts deter exchange students, foreign academics

The number of students visiting Turkish universities with the European Union’s (EU) Erasmus exchange programme dropped by half in three years, while the number...
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CHP to attend Turkey’s coup commemoration event after last-minute invitation

Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) spokesperson Bülent Tezcan has announced that CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu and the party’s deputies are going to...
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[Update] Mother of young cancer patient about to lose an eye: My child will...

Recent test results show that the condition of a 6-year-old boy with stage 4 brain cancer living in Manisa, Turkey, has worsened and that...

Jailed visual journalist’s work to be exhibited at New York art gallery

Forty works of art by visual journalist Fevzi Yazıcı, created mostly in prison as he has been behind bars since August 2016 on terrorism...

PACE Turkey rapporteurs call on authorities to free political prisoners

Amid fear of the coronavirus pandemic’s spread to Turkey's overcrowded prisons, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of...

LRWC urges Turkish gov’t to release 21 jailed lawyers of İstanbul Bar Association

Lawyers Rights Watch Canada (LRWC), a committee of Canadian lawyers who promote human rights and the rule of law internationally, has urged the Turkish...

Major says no one in Erdoğan assassination attempt trial has links to Gülen

One of 37 officers who are standing trial on charges of taking part in an assassination attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during a...
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