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HRW, RSF, others express concern over Turkey’s harsh crackdown after coup attempt

Independent watchdogs such as the Reporters Without Borders (RSF), Human Rights Watch (HRW), Freedom House and Amnesty International have expressed concern in separate statements...

US lawmaker says Gülen should not be extradited, calls his movement strongest element against radical Islamists

United States (US) Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats, released a statement on Monday,...

Iran claims Saudi Arabia and Qatar stood with coup plotters against Turkish gov’t

Javad Zarif, Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs has asserted that a number of countries, including Saudi Arabia and Qatar, stood with the coup plotters,...

2 Turkish pilots arrested for 2015’s downing of a Russian war jet

Turkey has arrested two of its army pilots for shooting down a Russian war plane near the Syrian border in November 2015; an incident...

Kerry and Mogherini call on Turkey to adhere to rule of law in crackdown on coup plotters

United States (US) Secretary of State John Kerry and European Union (EU) foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini called on Turkey to maintain principles of...

EU’s Hahn says Turkish government had list of arrests before coup attempt

The European Union (EU) commissioner dealing with Turkey's membership bid, Johannes Hahn, has said that lists of recent detentions and arrests of judges and...

Rebel Turkish army officials seek political asylum in Greece after failed coup attempt

Eight military officials, who were involved in Friday's failed coup attempt, reportedly landed in Greek the city of Alexandroupoli by a Turkish army helicopter,...

Turkey flies flag at half mast at NATO HQ, as PM condemns Nice attack in French

Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said on Friday that Turkey will fly its flag at half mast at the NATO headquarters due to the Nice...

Nice terror attack on Bastille Day kills 84, injures more than 100

Eighty-four people were killed and more than 100 were injured Thursday night, when a large truck plowed through a crowd celebrating Bastille Day in...

France cancels National Day events in Turkey due to security concerns

The French embassy in Ankara announced on Wednesday that it cancelled planned events to mark July 14, the National Day of France in the...

55 members of Free Syrian Army escape from al-Nusra Front, take shelter in Turkey, report says

Syrian state-run news agency SANA claimed in a report that 55 members of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), who had been held captive by...

Turkish schools’ manager in Thailand receives award for ‘contributing to public peace’

Ufuk Civelek, the general-manager of the umbrella organization Marmara Educational Institutions in Thailand, has received the prestigious “manager of the year” award for contributing...

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