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[UPDATE] Turkish court reverses decision to release Amnesty’s Kılıç

An Istanbul court on Thursday reversed its decision to release Taner Kılıç, chairman of the board of Amnesty International Turkey, local media reported. The Istanbul...

Kurdish-German player barred from Turkish Super League football

Deniz Naki, a Kurdish football player, has been barred from the Turkish Super League by the disciplinary council of the Turkish Football Federation (TFF), NTV...

ICG: Hostility against Syrian refugees is rising in Turkey

The International Crisis Group (ICG) said in a report released on Tuesday that violence in Turkish cities between host communities and Syrian refugees increased...

Erdoğan advisor: We’ve defeated the US five times since 2015

Retired Brig. Gen. Adnan Tanrıverdi, a top advisor of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said Turkey has defeated the US five times since 2015,...

[UPDATE] 11 medical association administrators detained over criticism of Afrin offensive

Eleven central council members of the Turkish Medical Association have been detained in police raids on their homes over a statement critical of Turkey's...

New report illustrates crackdown on Kurdish political movement in Turkey

The Kurdish political movement has come under intense pressure from the current government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who is bent on marginalizing the...

Turkey’s interior minister: Turkish district governors are running 3 Syrian cities

Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu on Saturday said Turkey is running three Syrian cities, Cumhuriyet reported. "There are district governors, police chiefs and gendarmerie commanders...

Turkish parliament speaker calls Afrin offensive ‘jihad’

Speaker of the Turkish Parliament İsmail Kahraman on Saturday described as a “jihad” a Turkish military offensive against US-backed Kurdish armed groups in the...

Report: 2016 tweet threatening journalists sent from Turkish embassy computer

A police investigation in Belgium has shown that at least one threatening social media message received by Turkish journalists Mete Öztürk and R.D. in...

Pro-gov’t editor-in-chief calls the US an ‘enemy country’ of Turkey

İbrahim Karagül, the editor-in-chief of the pro-government Yeni Şafak daily, published an editorial on Friday condemning the United States and calling it an “enemy country,”...

Turkey says ‘neutralized’ over 300 militants in Afrin

The Turkish military said Thursday that 303 Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) militants have been "neutralized" since the beginning of Operation Olive Branch...

[UPDATE] 3 Turkish soldiers killed in four days of Afrin operation

Turkey has lost three soldiers in the four days of Operation Olive Branch in the Kurdish-controlled Afrin region of Syria. According to media reports, Lt....

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