Israel quake teams should work through sabbath: chief rabbi
Israel’s Ashkenazi chief rabbi, David Lau, ruled Friday that emergency teams deployed to Turkey to help in the earthquake response should work through the...
Turkish court sentences veteran journalist Böken to 10 years in prison over alleged Gülen...
Ali Ahmet Böken (46), a veteran Turkish journalist and prominent broadcaster, was sentenced by a Turkish court on Tuesday to nine years, nine months...
Pro-Turkey fighters kill 4 Syria Kurds celebrating Nevruz: rights group
Turkish-backed fighters shot at a family of Kurds celebrating the festival of Nevruz in northern Syria on Monday, killing at least four people, Agence...
European Parliament urges Turkey to end expulsions of foreign Christians and journalists
The European Parliament on Thursday condemned what it called Turkey’s targeted expulsions of foreign Christians and foreign journalists on national security grounds and urged...
Turkey blocks LGBTQ+ cruise ship from docking, citing ‘moral values’
Turkey has blocked an LGBTQ+ cruise ship chartered by a US travel company from docking at two Turkish ports, saying the voyage was incompatible...
Parliament’s peace blueprint backs PKK integration, hints at Öcalan release
Turkey’s parliamentary peace commission has finalized a draft report proposing legal reforms tied to peace efforts with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), including a...
[Interview] Held at knifepoint and sent back to Turkey, Turkish pushback victim says she...
"I left my country, my loved-ones and my life to escape the injustice I had been subjected to," said Hüsniye, who was sent back...
Media worker who faces lifetime jail appears in Turkish court without a lawyer
A media worker who worked for a critical national newspaper has been finally brought to the court for a trial hearing after months of...
European rights court orders Turkey to compensate citizen held in police custody when he...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ordered Turkey to pay compensation to a Turkish citizen who was taken into police custody when...
European rights court poses questions to Turkish gov’t on abysmal conditions of prisons
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has posed a series of questions to the Turkish government about the abysmal conditions of Turkish prisons...
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