24.2 C
Frankfurt am Main

CATEGORY

National

Police seize passports of journalists Yıldırım, Başlangıç

The Turkish government has banned journalists Ayşe Yıldırım and Celal Başlangıç from travelling abroad after seizing their passports at an İstanbul airport on Monday. "We...

Main opposition leader Kılıçdaroğlu: Shutting down TV stations a putschist tradition

Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on Tuesday spoke out against police storming and cutting the broadcasting of radio and TV...

Purge now hits Kurds, Alevis as police storm critical radio and TV stations

The Turkish government’s crackdown after an abortive coup on July 15 expanded into a sweeping purge on Tuesday, reaching not only into the Gülen movement,...

64 detained in Kayseri-based witch-hunt against Gülen movement

Sixty-four people out of 78 for whom detention warrants were issued by the Kayseri Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office over their alleged links to the...

Pro gov’t TV claims Gülen sends a secret signal by drinking tea

During a TV program recently aired on the pro-government Haber-Turk station, Sabah daily columnists Ferhat Ünlü and Metehan Demir and TV anchor Didem Arslan...

Turkish police raid offices of critical radio and TV stations, detain staff

Teams from the İstanbul Police Department on Tuesday stormed the offices of three media outlets that were recently removed from the Turkish Satellite Communications...

CHP appeals to human rights commission over torture allegations in Turkish jails

The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) appealed for a second time on Tuesday to the Human Rights Commission in the Turkish Parliament to...

Turkish parliamentary commission on failed coup holds first meeting

The first meeting of the parliamentary Research Commission, investigating a failed coup on July 15 in Turkey, was held in Parliament on Tuesday. Ruling Justice...

6 academics arrested over use of ByLock

Six out of eight academics from Karadeniz Technical University (KTÜ) have been arrested by a court on charges of using ByLock, a smart phone...

1 soldier killed, 2 wounded in PKK attack

A first lieutenant died and two soldiers were wounded in an attack on Tuesday launched by the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the...

Council of Europe warns against hate speech by senior state officials in Turkey

  The human rights body of the Council of Europe, the Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), issued a report on Wednesday raising concerns about...

Turkish justice minister claims Fethullah Gülen will flee the US

As part of the Turkish government’s obsession with Muslim scholar Fethullah Gülen, who has been in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since 1999, the justice...

Latest news