Drug traffickers use Turkey’s citizenship laws to evade trial in Europe: report
Europe’s most-wanted drug traffickers are increasingly evading capture by becoming Turkish citizens, VICE World News reported, citing European law enforcement officials.
European law enforcement officials, speaking...
Woman with history of diabetic comas rearrested over alleged Gülen links
Züleyha Doğru, 31, was rearrested today on charges of links to the faith-based Gülen movement despite having lapsed into a diabetic coma twice during...
COMMENTARY — Erdoğan made Turkey’s Kurdish problem worse
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Having deliberately undermined two initiatives to address Turkey’s longstanding Kurdish problem during its 16 years of rule, the government of President Recep...
İstanbul Bar president, board members acquitted in terrorism propaganda case
A Turkish court has acquitted the president of the İstanbul Bar Association and 10 executive board members of terrorism-related charges, finding that the case...
Jailed Turkish academic Laçiner: I got used to lynching, at least accusations should make...
Renowned Turkish academic and political scientist Prof. Dr. Sedat Laçiner, who was arrested in the wake of a controversial military coup on July 15,...
48 detained in raids across Turkey over alleged use of ByLock messaging app
At least 48 people were detained over their alleged use of the ByLock mobile application, considered by the Turkish government to be evidence of...
Turkish police detain 8 Kurdish artists in Van and Diyarbakır provinces
Turkish police detained eight Kurdish musicians and theater actors in Diyarbakır and Van provinces on Saturday over plays they have staged in Kurdish.
According to a...
Prominent scholar says Turkey–PKK peace talks likely to fail amid disputes over rights and...
A well-known scholar of Kurdish politics has warned that Turkey’s latest attempt to revive peace talks with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) is...
295 detained, 61 arrested in a month as part of crackdown on HDP
Nuray Özdoğan, co-spokesperson for the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) law and human rights commissions, has said 295 people were detained and 61 were...
Deputy speaker of Turkish parliament calls for closure of top court over failure to...
Celal Adan, deputy speaker of the Turkish parliament, has called for the closure of Turkey’s Constitutional Court (AYM) due to its failure so far...
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