An armored vehicle used by Turkish security forces kills old woman in Diyarbakır’s Lice...
An old woman named Pakize Hazar has reportedly lost her life when she was hit by an armored vehicle used by Turkish security forces...
Turkish PM Yıldırım takes anti-Gülen witch-hunt to the US
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has called on Muslims in the US to distance themselves from people linked to the Gülen movement, inspired by...
Turkish police beat Reyhanlı attack victims, saying ‘Sorry, we thought you were Demirtaş supporters’
Ankara police beat family members of victims of a 2013 terrorist attack in Reyhanlı after a hearing on Friday and then apologized to them,...
Pompeo meets with families of US mission employees jailed by Turkish gov’t
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday met with the families of three Turkish employees of the US mission in Turkey who were detained...
Colonel suffering from heart disease denied treatment, kept in solitary confinement
Mustafa Barış Avıalan, a former staff colonel sentenced to life imprisonment on coup charges, was denied treatment despite suffering from heart disease and kept...
45 people detained on Cyprus while trying to escape persecution of Erdoğan regime in...
Forty-five people, including 17 children and nine women, were detained by security forces on Saturday on a boat off the Turkish Republic of Northern...
Journalist Mehmet Çakmakçı sent to jail by Turkish court in Diyarbakır
A Diyarbakır court decided to jail Kurdish journalist Mehmet Çakmakçı, who uses the pen name Şiyar Dicle, pending trial on terrorism charges on Wednesday,...
Turkish opposition leader: Stop blaming failures on foreign powers
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the leader of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), told Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday to stop blaming his...
COMMENTARY — Turkey intel-linked ISIL man posed as a refugee, went through Greece, registered...
By Abdullah Bozkurt
A chilling account of a suspect in the deadliest terror attack in Turkey that was blamed on Islamic State of Iraq and...
Trial of gendarme accused of arson and killing a Kurdish family dropped due to...
A court in central Turkey has ruled to conclude the trial in absentia of a gendarme charged with the mass murder a Kurdish family...
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