Kosovo under Turkish gov’t pressure detains 5 Turkish educators over alleged links to Gülen...
Kosovo police detained five Turkish educators who are employees of the Mehmet Akif schools in Kosovo and an academic early Thursday morning over alleged...
Leyla İmret, a dismissed pro-Kurdish mayor in Turkey, gives speech at CoE
A former mayor of Turkey’s Cizre district in the southeastern province of Şırnak who is being sought on an arrest warrant for alleged terror...
Turkish gov’t issues detention warrants for 70 active duty military officers over alleged Gülen...
Turkish government issued detention warrants for 70 active duty military officers on Thursday in the Central Anatolian province of Konya as part of its...
US senator visits jailed Pastor Brunson ahead of trial in Turkey’s İzmir
US Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) announced on Wednesday that he visited Andrew Craig Brunson, an American pastor who faces 35 years in prison for...
Turkish gov’t detains more than 70 women over alleged financial support for jailed Gülen...
The Turkish government detained more than 70 women on Wednesday evening in five Turkish provinces as part of a Balıkesir-based investigation targeting alleged members...
Car used by abducted Turkish man found with a punctured tyre in Ankara
The car used by Ümit Horzum, who was kidnapped in Turkey's capital of Ankara on December 6, 2017, was found with a punctured tyre...
Turkish writer Eliaçık faces 7,5 years in prison over alleged ‘PKK propaganda’
Turkish writer and anti-capitalist Islamic scholar İhsan Eliaçık is currently standing trial on charges of disseminating propaganda on behalf of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’...
CHP deputy questions Turkish university rector’s call to kill democrats
Ali Şeker, a deputy from Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), has questioned a call in an article written by Prof. Dr. Ahmet Ağırakça,...
Turkish gov’t arrests German citizen for trying to join YPG in Syria
A German national has been arrested in Turkey for allegedly trying to join the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units YPG militia, Turkish media reported....
Turkish gov’t detains some 80 people over alleged links to Gülen movement
The Turkish government on Wednesday detained some 80 people across Turkey as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt targeting alleged members of the...
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