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[OPINION] Turkey’s Erdoğan sowing the seeds of jihadist ideology among African students

by Abdullah Bozkurt The scary spectacle of how African exchange students who receive their education in Turkey on government scholarships are being indoctrinated in jihadist...

42 detained in Elazığ-based operation due to alleged Gülen links

Turkish police teams on Thursday detained 42 out of 53 people for whom detention warrants were issued as part of an out of Elazığ...

Turkey bans access to critical Ahval news website

The Turkish Telecommunications Authority (BTK) on Wednesday imposed an access ban on the critical news website ahvalnews.com as the Turkish government’s crackdown on the...

HDP deputy sentenced to 10 years in prison on terrorism charges

A Turkish court in Gaziantep province has sentenced pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Selma Irmak to 10 years in prison on terrorism charges. The...

Jailed journalist Altan sentenced to additional 6 years on terror-related charges

An İstanbul court on Wednesday sentenced prominent Turkish novelist and editor-in-chief of the now-closed Taraf newspaper Ahmet Altan, who was sentenced by another court to...

38 Nobel laureates call on Erdoğan to restore freedom of expression in Turkey

In an open letter published in The Guardian on Feb. 28, 2018, a group of 38 Nobel laureates called on Turkish President Recep Tayyip...

Detention warrants issued for 95 people over alleged Gülen links

The Eskişehir and Erzincan chief public prosecutor’s offices on Wednesday issued detention warrants for 95 people as part of an investigation into the faith-based...

HDP deputies to avoid Turkish Parliament sessions for 2 days

The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) on Wednesday announced that its deputies would not participate in sessions of the Turkish Parliament for the next...

Court refuses to release Zaman journalist Ünal after 18 months in jail

A high criminal court in the western Turkish province of Uşak has refused to release Ali Ünal, a theologian and a former columnist for...

OSCE urges Turkey not to adopt new Internet bill

OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Harlem Désir on Tuesday shared a legal review with Turkish authorities on elements of a bill that,...

US State Dept. tells Turkey to ‘go back and read’ UN cease-fire resolution

US State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert at a press briefing on Tuesday urged Turkey to read the entire UN Security Council resolution passed over...

Teacher tortured to death by Turkish police found innocent, reinstated to job

Teacher Gökhan Açıkkollu, who was tortured to death while in police custody in the wake of a coup attempt in Turkey on July 15,...

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