Istanbul court issues access bans on 30 news reports upon request of radical Islamist...
The Istanbul 8th Criminal Court of Peace in one week issued access bans on 30 news reports upon the request of the radical Islamist...
COMMENTARY — Erdoğan’s creeping radical Islamist projects in Macedonia
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Macedonia has been targeted by a hostile Islamist agenda discreetly pursued by the government of Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who...
Erdoğan’s ruling AKP nominates al-Qaeda suspect as candidate for parliamentary elections
The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has nominated Osman Nuri Gülaçar, who had previously been arrested on suspicion...
Turkey’s main opposition leader says Erdoğan’s party in succession fight
Turkey’s main opposition leader Özgür Özel has said President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is experiencing in an internal power...
463 people died in workplace accidents in Turkey in first quarter of year
At least 463 people died in workplace accidents in Turkey in the first quarter of 2023, according to a reportby the Health and Safety Labor...
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...
Jailed Turkish journalist Emre Soncan: European politicians disloyal to European values
Turkish journalist Emre Soncan (36), who has been jailed in Turkey's notorious Silivri Prison in İstanbul for 667 days and sentenced by a court to...
Turkish lawyer detained in Mozambique over extradition request denied access to legal counsel
Emre Çınar, a Turkish lawyer detained in Mozambique following an extradition request from Turkish authorities over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, has...
Kılıçdaroğlu names EU membership as main goal, urges sharing of Turkey’s refugee burden
Leader of the main opposition party and presidential candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has said that if elected, his main goal will be making Turkey a...
EU condemns Turkey’s detention of students, ‘hate speech’
The EU on Thursday decried the detention of university students in Turkey and the use of anti-LGBT “hate speech” after President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...
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