İstanbul court accepts indictment against 235 police officers
An İstanbul court on Monday accepted an indictment against 235 police officers, who were arrested after a coup attempt on July 15, 2016, for...
COMMENTARY — Erdoğan selected a crook and jihadist enabler as Turkey’s vice president
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Fuat Oktay, named vice president in the new Cabinet of Turkish Islamist leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to the surprise of many Turkey...
Turkish officials, Tillerson discuss ISIL, Gülen extradition in Ankara
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Turkish officials on Thursday discussed ways to coordinate the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and...
Health is most critical issue in overcrowded Turkish prisons, says NGO executive
Civil Society Association for Law Enforcement Systems (CISST) executive board member Berivan Korkut has said health is the most critical issue in overcrowded Turkish...
Turkey detains 9 human rights advocates including AI director
Police detained nine human rights advocates including Amnesty International Turkey Director İdil Eser at a hotel on Büyükada, one of İstanbul’s nine islands in...
Judge breaks off coup hearing after complainants throw water bottles at defendants
The presiding judge at a hearing in Ankara on Thursday, part of a trial of key suspects in a controversial coup in 2016, broke...
Czech court releases former PYD leader Muslim despite Turkey’s extradition request
A Czech court on Tuesday released Salih Muslim, the former co-chairperson of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), who was detained and subsequently...
PACE co-rapporteurs Mikko and Evans to make fact-finding visit to Turkey
Marianne Mikko (Estonia, SOC) and Nigel Evans (United Kingdom, EC), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), will be making...
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...
The Economist: Diyanet, Turkey’s religious authority, surrenders to political Islam
Turkey’s controversial religious body, Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), has not only ballooned in size but also begun to serve political Islamist aims after 15...
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