Former Turkish director of Pak-Turk school, his family kidnapped from Lahore
Former director of Pak-Turk School, Mesut Kaçmaz, a Turkish national, has reportedly been kidnapped along with his family in the early hours of Wednesday...
Turkey decides its future in knife-edge vote
Turkey on Sunday began voting in a momentous election that could extend President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s 21-year grip on power or put the mostly...
Turkish gov’t detained 568 people over alleged links to Gülen movement in a week
Turkish government has detained 568 people as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt campaign targeting alleged members of the Gülen movement across Turkey...
Turkey gov’t requests extradition of 419 alleged members of Gülen movement
Turkish Justice Minister Abdülhamit Gül said on Friday that the Turkish government has so far asked for the extradition of 419 people linked to...
Turkish gov’t accused of recruiting, retraining ISIL militants to attack Afrin
The Turkish government has been recruiting and retraining jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants in its ongoing offensive in Afrin...
Erdoğan blocks news about himself, his family, his senior officials: report
Forty-two percent of news reports blocked in Turkey between November 2019 and October 2020 are related to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, his family...
16 people trying to flee persecution in Turkey to Greek island detained by police
Turkish police detained 16 people, including four children, on Sunday in the Ayvalık district in western Balıkesir province over their alleged membership in the...
Ailing inmate says can’t access healthcare, confined to filthy quarantine cell
Miktad Doğan, 30, an inmate in pretrial detention suffering from a serious liver disease, said he was belatedly taken to the hospital and made...
Dozens detained in Turkey ahead of May 1 celebrations
Nearly 40 people, including journalists, labor union members and opposition figures, were detained on Tuesday in İstanbul ahead of International Workers’ Day, celebrated on...
Local sources say 6 abducted Gülen movement followers still in Kosovo
Six people who used to work at schools affiliated with the Gülen movement are still being held in Kosovo, according to reliable local sources.
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