Afghan-Turk School students and teachers detained in Herat
A number of students and teachers from the Afghan-Turk school in Herat province were detained on Sunday morning over their alleged links to the Gülen...
Critics cite systemic negligence as Turkey’s disaster toll exceeds 54,000 under AKP rule
A grim tally of disasters, claiming 54,780 lives in Turkey over the past two decades under the rule of the Justice and Development Party...
3 women detained by police acting without a warrant for attending demonstration
Turkish police on Wednesday detained three women, whose identities were not disclosed, during a raid on their homes in Istanbul, despite not having a...
US official says investigation into Turkey’s Halkbank still underway
An unnamed US official who met with a group of Turkish journalists said that an investigation into Turkey’s state-owned Halkbank conducted by the Office...
Turkish authorities continue to defy top court ruling on Armenian church foundation’s property rights
Turkish authorities have continued to defy a Constitutional Court ruling that recognizes the Vakıflıköy Armenian Church Foundation’s property rights, refusing to return contested real...
UNCHR spokesperson says they are investigating the death of 19 migrants on Turkish-Greek border
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) spokesperson Shabia Mantoo on Thursday said they are investigating the circumstances surrounding 19 migrants who froze to...
COMMENTARY – The murder of the Russian ambassador exposes Erdoğan’s jihadist friends
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Despite attempts by the Islamist government in Turkey to hush up the investigation into the assassination of Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov and...
Opposition MP submits parliamentary proposal to investigate the impact of poverty on minors in...
Ayşe Sibel Yankıömeroğlu from the Republican People’s Party (CHP) has submitted a parliamentary proposal to investigate the impact of poverty on minors in Turkey...
Turkey’s Council of Forensic Medicine says in controversial report ailing Kurdish politician fit to...
Turkey's Council of Forensic Medicine (ATK) on Tuesday presented to court its report on ailing Kurdish politician Aysel Tuğluk, saying she displayed symptoms of...
Gülen’s brother left to die in Turkish prison, deprived of medications
One of the brothers of Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, Kutbettin Gülen, who was arrested in October, is being deprived of medications despite suffering...
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