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Harms: Yücel’s release overshadowed by cruel verdict against his Turkish colleagues

Rebecca Harms, spokeswoman for foreign affairs and expert on Turkey in the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament, on Friday criticized the verdict of...

OSCE, UN representatives: Life sentences for Turkish journalists an attack on freedom of expression

Today’s court decision to imprison journalists for life constitutes an unparalleled level of suppression of dissenting voices in Turkey, Harlem Désir, OSCE representative on...

Turkey, US agree during Tillerson visit to normalize badly strained relations

The US and Turkey have retreated from the verge of a potentially disastrous crisis on Friday, agreeing to normalize relations badly strained over Syria...

German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yücel released by İstanbul court

Deniz Yücel, a German Turkish journalist whose detention had been a source of tension between Ankara and Berlin, was released on Friday by an...

6 journalists including Altan brothers given aggravated life sentences

A Turkish court on Friday handed down aggravated life sentences to three prominent journalists and three other defendants on charges of attempting to destroy...

Detention warrants issued for 72 people over Gülen links

The Ankara and Tokat chief public prosecutor’s offices on Friday issued detention warrants for 72 people including 20 military members over alleged links to...

Education Ministry cancels licenses of 1,272 educators over Gülen links

The Turkish Ministry of Education has canceled the teaching licenses of an additional 1,272 people who work for private education companies on suspicion of...

Gülen calls on int’l community to pressure Turkey over rights violations

Turkish-Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen has made a call to the international community, asking them to warn Turkish authorities to take the necessary measures to...

Police detain 6 members of Boydak family due to Bank Asya account

Turkish police teams on Thursday detained six members of the Boydak family, prominent industrialists from the Central Anatolian city of Kayseri, on the grounds...

Erdoğan ‘explicitly’ describes Turkey’s priorities in meeting with Tillerson

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met for more than three hours in Ankara on Thursday during which time...

Altans’ lawyer tells judges ignoring top court’s ruling could lead to expulsion from post

Ergin Cinmen, a lawyer representing prominent journalists Ahmet Altan and Mehmet Altan, has told judges hearing the trial of his clients to comply with...

Merkel: Normalization of ties with Turkey still faces many hurdles

German Chancellor Angela Merkel told the press on Thursday that said she saw numerous hurdles still in the way of normalization of German-Turkish relations...

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