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Turkish Deputy PM says Erdoğan and Putin are the world’s only leaders

One of Turkey’s deputy prime ministers, Hakan Çavuşoğlu, has said there are no leaders in any European countries and that Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip...

Turkish court seeks Interpol Red Notice, issues arrest warrant for journalist Dündar

An İstanbul court on Monday issued an arrest warrant in absentia and sought an Interpol Red Notice for exiled Turkish journalist Can Dündar, the...

Harms calls on EU to grant Turkey purge victims political asylum

Rebecca Harms, spokeswoman for foreign affairs and expert on Turkey in the European Parliament’s Greens/EFA group, on Monday called on the European Union to...

Turkish gov’t detains 8,188 over Gülen links in last three months

The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that 853 people have been detained in the past week due to alleged links to the faith-based...

Cellmate: Gülen follower abducted from Malaysia subjected to torture in jail

Alaaddin Duman, a former teacher in Malaysia who was abducted by the Turkish intelligence agency over alleged links to the Gülen movement in 2016,...

Erdoğan says Gülen will be abducted just like 6 Turks in Kosovo

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, who lives in the US, will face the same end as six...

No HDP members appear on Turkish national TV for more than a year

A report on the media coverage of political parties has revealed that pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) members have not been invited to appear...

Detention warrants issued for 80 in Ankara over Gülen links

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Friday issued detention warrants for 80 people over their alleged links to the Gülen movement, which is...

HRF calls on Kosovo PM to obey int’l human rights law on six detained Turks 

The New York-based Human Rights Foundation (HRF) on Friday sent a letter to Kosovo’s Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj requesting him to apply the non-refoulment...

Workers prohibited from speaking in Kurdish at İstanbul construction site

A construction company in İstanbul has sent a letter to one of its subcontracting firms saying that no language other than Turkish should be...

Afrin locals’ remarks mistranslated on Habertürk in favor of FSA

In an apparent move to justify an ongoing Turkish military operation in the northern Syrian town of Afrin, the remarks of several locals who...

English PEN report: Freedom of expression in jeopardy in Turkey

The rise of criminal cases involving freedom of expression in Turkey under a state of emergency declared in the aftermath of a military coup...

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