Greece has adopted illegal border push-back for Erdoğan critics
In a breach of European Union (EU) and international laws, Greek government appears to have adopted a policy of push-backs of Turks seeking asylum from...
Survey shows purge over 8,000 academics leads to 28 pct decrease in scientific research...
The Justice and Development Party (AKP) government under the strict rule of Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has sacked more than 8,000 critical academics...
Turkey turned blind eye on ISIL’s Mona Lisa Jihadist wife and Turkish suicide bomber...
By Abdullah Bozkurt
For Jihadist groups including al-Qaeda and Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), Turkey has been not only a transit country but...
Turkey’s Ankara Mayor Gökçek hints ‘genocide’ for followers of Gülen movement
Melih Gökçek, the mayor of Turkey's capital city Ankara, has hinted a kind of "genocide" for alleged members of faith-based Gülen movement, in an...
Turkish police detains woman shortly after delivery in Ankara over alleged Gülen links
A Turkish women, Nazlı N. Mert, who has just given birth to a baby at private Lokman Hekim Hospital in Ankara's Etlik neighborhood, was...
NBA star Enes Kanter’s father detained in Turkey over alleged Gülen links
Turkish police on Friday detained Prof. Dr. Mehmet Kanter, father of NBA Oklahoma City Thunder player Enes Kanter, who the government seeks to arrest...
Turkish woman detained due to Gülen links shortly after delivery in Bursa
Elif Aslaner, a religious education teacher, who gave birth to a baby on Wednesday at a private hospital in Bursa, was detained due to...
VIDEO — Turkish police shot dismissed public servant Saçılık with hundreds of plastic bullets
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A video footage shows the moment Turkish police fired hundreds of plastic bullets at Veli Saçılık, a former political prisoner and public servant who...
TİHV report shows curfews declared by Turkish gov’t adversely affected 1,6 million people
A report released by Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) on Thursday have showed that at least 1 million 809 thousands people were adversely...
One more dismissed teacher begins hunger strike in Turkey for reinstatement to job
Nazife Onay, one of the thousands of teachers who were expelled from their posts by government decrees in the aftermath of a failed coup...
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