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Report: Spying allegations against Turkish imams in Germany expand

In the wake of a recent admission by the German-based Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DİTİB), which said some of its imams had acted...

Syrian Kurdish YPG disowns outcome of Astana talks

Syrian Kurdish militia the People’s Protection Units (YPG), the armed wing of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), said on Monday that it would...

Turkey asks Swiss gov’t to pursue Erdoğan critics on social media

Turkey has requested help from Switzerland in pursuing critics of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as part of a bilateral agreement on intelligence sharing between...

[VIDEO] Turkey-trained Jarablus police: Long live Erdoğan, long live Syria

Video footage that has gone viral on social media shows a large group of police officers in the northern Syrian city of Jarablus who...

Astana talks begin for another attempt to end 6-year-long war in Syria

The warring sides in Syria's six-year-old civil war met for talks in Kazakhstan's capital of Astana on Monday after the leaders of Russia, Turkey...

The Guardian: UK sells arms to Turkey as Erdoğan continues crackdown

The London-based Guardian daily said in an article on Sunday that the British government has been turning a blind eye to human rights violations...

EU intelligence report on July 15 disturbs Ankara

A report by the European Union’s intelligence-sharing unit, INTCEN, stating that Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen did not order a failed coup in Turkey...

Turkish gov’t-funded madrassa teacher recorded praising ISIL in classroom

A recording has revealed a teacher who works at a Turkish government-funded religious school in Albania speaking with a student about how Islamic State in...

RSF urges repeal of emergency decrees, end to persecution of journalists

In a letter sent today to a commission in the Turkish Parliament tasked with investigating human rights violations, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urged legislators...

[VIDEO] Deputy PM says Turkey can’t insist on settlement in Syria without Assad

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Şimşek has said Turkey can no longer insist on any settlement for Syria's long-running war without Syrian President Bashar...

Protestors attack Turkey’s Zurich consulate with firecrackers

Protestors, allegedly sympathizers of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), threw firecrackers at the compound of the Turkish Consulate General in Zurich late on...

2 arrested in Russian envoy assassination case, but for Gülen links, not as accessories

  Two people, including a police officer, were arrested by a Turkish court over links to the Gülen movement as part of an investigation into...

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