Minister son-in-law of Turkey’s Erdoğan: I would strangle Gülen supporters wherever I see them
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Addressing university students being sent abroad on scholarships, autocratic President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s son-in-law and Energy and Natural Resources Minister Berat Albayrak...
NY Judge Berman says he is worried, disturbed by political pressure on Turkey’s Zarrab...
Judge Richard M. Berman, senior federal judge of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, who is the overseeing cases of...
HDP deputy chains himself to protest Turkey’s destructions in ancient Hasankeyf town
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Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Batman deputy Mehmet Ali Aslan launched protest on Thursday by chaining himself against destructions in ancient Hasankeyf town in...
Turkish coup suspect general says he reported Gülen-linked generals in 2014
Brig. Gen. Gökhan Şahin Sönmezateş, the commander of a team that targeted Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s hotel during the night of a controversial coup...
Turkish court arrests 9 out of 11 journalists detained over alleged ByLock use
An İstanbul prosecutor ruled for the arrest of 9 out of 11 journalists who were detained on August 10 as part of an investigation...
Journalists deny accusations of taking part in Turkey’s controversial coup attempt, ask for release
Journalists who appeared before a judge on Wednesday at the İstanbul 25th High Criminal Court denied accusations of taking part in or supporting a...
Cartoonist Trivedi portrays 15 mothers and babies persecuted by despotic Erdoğan regime in Turkey
A world famous political cartoonist and free speech activist Aseem Trivedi has drawn cartoons of 15 mothers and their newly born babies, who have been detained...
Turkish journalists and academics Alpay and Altan demand equal treatment before the law
Journalist and academic Şahin Alpay and Mehmet Altan, who were imprisoned by Turkish government under the rule of autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and...
Erdoğanist media shows 29 critical journalists, activists as new targets for Turkish government persecution
Pro-Erdoğan newspapers Türkiye, Güneş, Sabah, Akşam and Star have showed 29 critical journalists, writeres and activists as new targets for Turkish government persecution on Tuesday...
Turkey launches investigation into CHP deputy for calling July 15 ‘theater’
The Antalya Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation into main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Mustafa Akaydın, who called a controversial...
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