German police warn Turkish editor about hit list targeting journalists in exile
The German Federal Police have warned Celal Başlangıç, the editor-in-chief of Artı TV and the Artı Gerçek news website, of a planned assassination targeting...
CHP’s Kılıçdaroğlu: Turkish President using Brunson crisis to cover up his economic failure
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the leader of Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), has said that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is deliberately using the...
Turkey sends journalist working for pro-Alevi media outlet to prison
A journalist in southern Turkey was sent to prison on Tuesday evening after police raided his house when the top appeals court upheld a...
Civil servant fired in post-coup purge not reinstated despite acquittal of all charges
A former civil servant who was summarily dismissed from his job with a government decree after a coup attempt in Turkey on July 15,...
COMMENTARY — NATO simulation in Norway reveals Turkey’s Trojan horse
By Abdullah Bozkurt
A Russian-Iranian proxy group led by neo-nationalist leader Doğu Perinçek, a close ally of Turkey’s Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has been...
Cellmate: Teacher abducted by Turkey’s MİT from Malaysia subjected to torture in Ankara
Alaettin Duman, a teacher in Malaysia who in 2016 was abducted by agents of the notorious Turkish National Intelligence Organisation (MİT) from Malaysia's capital...
Mob attacks pro-opposition Halk TV crew during live broadcast
A group of people in the southwestern Turkish resort town of Marmaris on Thursday interrupted a live show broadcast by the government-critical Halk TV...
2 former MİT officials trying to flee persecution in Turkey detained at Greek border
Turkish security forces on Monday detained two former officials from Turkey's National Intelligence Organization (MİT) who were dismissed from their jobs by government decree under...
Kosovo bank reportedly freezes accounts of alleged followers of Gülen movement
As a new stage of persecution of Turkish nationals affiliated with the Gülen movement in line with the oppression of Turkish government led by...
Mother, son demanding justice in political murder case fined for hanging banner
Emine Şenyaşar and her son Ferit Şenyaşar, who have been protesting in front of the Şanlıurfa Courthouse in southeastern Turkey to seek justice for...
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