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Turkish-American advocate dedicates religious freedom award to victims of Turkey’s post-coup crackdown

Orhan Sait Berber/Washington, D.C. A Turkish-American advocate has dedicated a religious freedom award he received in Washington to people imprisoned, forced into exile or separated...

Netanyahu blocked vote on recognizing mass killings of Armenians as genocide: report

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blocked a parliamentary vote on formally recognizing the mass killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during World War...

Turkey condemns Greece’s closure of 8 minority schools in Western Thrace

Turkey’s foreign ministry on Sunday condemned Greece’s decision to close eight schools serving the Muslim minority in Western Thrace, accusing Athens of discrimination. In a...

Erdoğan to skip N. Cyprus anniversary after signaling visit: report

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will not attend ceremonies in northern Cyprus on Monday marking 52 years since Turkey’s 1974 military intervention, despite indicating last...

[OPINION] The Zarrab case is over. But was justice ever served?

Adem Yavuz Arslan*  I was in the courtroom Tuesday as one of the most consequential legal sagas in modern US-Turkey relations came to an end. In...

Turkey detains 119 in operations targeting ISIL

Turkish security forces detained 119 people in operations across 30 provinces over alleged links to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL),...

Turkey says EU security assessment ignores its candidate status

Turkey on Friday accused the EU of ignoring its candidate status and taking a biased approach to the eastern Mediterranean and Cyprus in a...

[OPINION] The coup failed. The state changed.

Tarık Toros* Modern states are often transformed by major crises. The United States changed after the 9/11 attacks. France expanded its security apparatus in the wake...

‘Marilyn Monroe of Mardin’ jailed for questioning official account of 2016 coup

A Turkish court has jailed pending trial a woman known on social media as the “Marilyn Monroe of Mardin” over a post questioning the...

[OPINION] July 15 coup attempt: A bloody ‘project,’ a ‘successful operation’

Abdülhamit Bilici* What would have happened if the July 15, 2016, coup attempt in Turkey had succeeded? The constitution would have been suspended, a state...

Russian couple detained, face deportation after Bible reading at Hagia Sophia

Two Russian tourists were detained in İstanbul after one of them allegedly read aloud from the Bible at Hagia Sophia, the sixth-century Byzantine cathedral...

Turkish FM urges Black Sea restraint during Ukraine visit

Turkey’s foreign minister on Thursday urged Russia and Ukraine to exercise restraint in the Black Sea, saying Ankara did not want the war to...

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