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Politician jailed after bus passenger reports WhatsApp messages to police

A female politician on a bus in İstanbul was first detained by police and then jailed by a court after another rider saw and...

Erdoğan, Putin discuss Turkey’s operation in Syria by phone

The Turkish and Russian presidents on Monday discussed Turkey’s ongoing operation in northwest Syria and the establishment of new observation posts in Idlib, the...

Turkish police detain 567 in one week over alleged Gülen links

The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that 567 people have been detained in the past week due to alleged links to the faith-based...

Turkey renames embassy street to protest US support for Kurdish PYD

The Ankara Metropolitan Municipality on Monday changed the name of the street on which the US Embassy is located to “Olive Branch,” the name...

Turkish teacher Çabuk freed on bail by Georgian court

Turkish teacher Mustafa Emre Çabuk has been freed on bail by a Georgian court, according to a Monday tweet by Rebecca Harms, member of...

[OPINION] Turkey raising a new army against NATO

Abdullah Bozkurt Against the backdrop of a dangerously expansionist and aggressive mood in Turkey with nationalist euphoria and religious zealotry reaching a new peak, the...

Turkish-German politician given police protection at Munich security conference

German Green politician Cem Özdemir was put under temporary police protection at the Feb. 16-18 Munich Security Conference after he encountered the Turkish delegation in...

Erdoğan to visit Berlin once new German government formed

Two days after the release of German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yücel, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım announced that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will visit Germany...

CoE’s Jagland criticizes Turkish gov’t over human rights violations

Council of Europe (CoE) Secretary-General Thorbjorn Jagland criticized the Turkish government’s human rights violations under a state of emergency during a speech he delivered in...

Verdict of life in prison for Turkish journalists sparks int’l condemnation

A verdict of aggravated life imprisonment, or life without parole, handed down to three Turkish journalists on Friday on charges of attempting to destroy...

Report: 8,480 Turkish citizens sought asylum in Germany in 2017

According to data from the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), 8,480 Turkish nationals claimed asylum in Germany in 2017, Deutsche Welle Turkish...

Yücel: I was released with a ruling ordering me to stay in prison

German Turkish journalist Deniz Yücel, who was released on Friday by an İstanbul court following a year spent in Silivri Prison, said while leaving...

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