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Macron calls Erdoğan, expresses concern over arrested French journalist

French President Emmanuel Macron in a phone call on Tuesday with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan expressed concern over French freelance reporter Loup Bureau,...

Iran’s Armed Forces Chief of Staff Baqeri visits Turkey

Maj. Gen. Mohammad Bagheri, the chief of staff of Iran's armed forces, is visiting Turkey on Tuesday together with a high-ranking political-military delegation, the...

Jailed Amnesty director says Turkey holding them hostage to threaten Germany

Director of Amnesty International (AI) Turkey Idil Eser, who has been jailed since her detention on July 5 together with nine other human rights...

Pro-Erdoğan columnist says US planning to attack Turkey

A staunchly pro-government columnist, Yusuf Kaplan, wrote in his Monday column that the US is planning to attack Turkey, which he argued, would divide...

Terror attack kills 20 at Burkina Faso Turkish restaurant

Suspected Islamist extremists on Sunday opened fire at an upscale Turkish restaurant in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, killing 20 people, including a...

Int’l rights organizations call on Turkey to release jailed human rights activists

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organization Against...

Deputy minister: Turkey denying visas to Kyrgyz Gülen school students, families

Kyrgyz nationals who study at schools affiliated with the Gülen movement as well as their families are being denied visas to Turkey, according to...

German firms sell 5.6 million euros worth of arms to Turkey

Despite ongoing tension between Berlin and Ankara over a visit to military bases in Turkey, the detention of several German journalists and a rights...

CPJ calls on Spain to release journalist arrested on Turkish warrant

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Spanish authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Hamza Yalçın, a writer for the leftist Turkish...

German lawmaker wants security guarantee during visit to NATO airbase in Turkey

Alexander Neu, a German lawmaker from the far-left Left party, demanded security guarantees from the German foreign ministry before visiting German soldiers at a...

Pro-Erdoğan daily: Prime suspect Öksüz gets temporary residence in Germany

As tension between Ankara and Berlin continues, the pro-government Yeni Şafak daily on Wednesday claimed that Adil Öksüz, the prime civilian suspect in a...

Pro-Erdoğan media targets German journalist in Turkey, calls him a ‘spy’

Turkey’s pro-government newspapers Akşam and Star on Wednesday targeted İstanbul-based German journalist Frank Nordhausen and called him a “spy” who replaced jailed German journalist...

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