Turkish gov’t adamant on targeting Syria’s Afrin as US changes tune over SDF forces
While Turkey’s National Security Council (MGK), top civil and military entity, said on Wednesday that it will take “immediate” and “resolute” steps to protect...
Turkish gov’t detains dozens, including former top judiciary official, over alleged links to Gülen...
Turkish government has detained dozens of people, including judge Mehmet Kaya, the former secretary general of the Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK),...
Jailed Turkish philanthropist Kavala says arrested just after being targeted by Erdoğan
Jailed businessman, philanthropist and civil activist Osman Kavala said his imprisonment came just after Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s words, implying that the...
Turkey orders detention of 164 suspects in ongoing crackdown on Gülen movement
The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday issued detention warrants for 164 suspects, including soldiers and scientists, in five separate investigations into followers...
Turkey’s Erdoğan takes aim at ‘LGBTI quota’ of a district municipality under opposition administration
Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said in a speech he delivered to neighbourhood heads (mukhtars) on Thursday that “(Main opposition Republican People’s Party)...
Human rights statue in Turkey’s capital ‘released’ after 14 months of ‘detention’
A statue representing human rights at the heart of Turkey's capital city of Ankara was finally "released" on Thursday after being surrounded by police...
Turkish FM Çavuşoğlu says US will learn how to talk to Turkey
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on Saturday said the US has to learn how to talk to Turkey, underlining that old habits must be...
Appeals court upholds prison sentence handed down to human rights defender and opposition MP...
Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals ruled on Friday to uphold a two-and-a-half-year sentence handed down to human rights defender and Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP)...
An Erdoğanist thug sentenced for threatening a sympathizer of Gülen movement in the Netherlands
Oğuzhan Erkuş, a 19-year-old supporter of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), who threatened to kill Mehmet Demirözcan (32), a sympathizer of the Gülen...
Turkish court sentences Islamic scholar to 6 years and 3 months in prison over...
A Turkish court ruled on Tuesday to sentence Turkish writer and anti-capitalist Islamic scholar İhsan Eliaçık to 6 years and 3 months in prison and...
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