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[OPINION] Erdoğan has ruined the lives of 1 million people in Turkey

by Abdullah Bozkurt The criminal investigations, prosecutions and trials in politically motivated cases on trumped-up terrorism and coup plotting charges have ruined the lives of...

Netherlands withdraws ambassador to Turkey due to 2017 row

The Dutch Foreign Ministry announced on Monday that it had formally withdrawn its ambassador to Turkey, who has been physically barred from the country...

Erdoğan overlooks challenges to Turkish military capability

Abdullah Bozkurt The anti-Western euphoria in the current Turkish government, which has gone well beyond posturing and definitely moved into a new phase with actual...

HRW report: Turkish border guards shooting at, blocking fleeing Syrians

Turkish guards at the border with Syria are indiscriminately shooting at and summarily returning Syrian asylum seekers attempting to cross into Turkey, the New...

Kılıçdaroğlu wins re-election as CHP chairman

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, chairman of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), was re-elected leader of the party on Saturday with 790 votes at the...

7 Turkish soldiers killed in deadliest day of Afrin operation

The Turkish military announced on Saturday that seven Turkish soldiers were killed in one day in the Afrin region of Syria. According to the statement,...

Physicist retained sanity in Turkish prison by writing research papers

Ali Kaya, a theoretical physicist and professor at Turkey’s Boğaziçi University, has said he kept his sanity during 440 days of pretrial detention by...

Report: 572 lawyers in Turkey arrested, 80 convicted since failed coup

Five hundred seventy-two lawyers in Turkey have been arrested, 80 of whom have been convicted and sentenced to between four and 14 years in...

13 detained in Samsun over alleged Gülen links

Turkish police on Saturday detained 13 people in the Salıpazarı district of Samsun province over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, the state-run...

Erdoğan says Turkish military getting closer to city of Afrin

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Saturday said Turkish troops are getting closer to the Syrian city of Afrin, the state-run Anadolu news agency...

Letter campaign launched for women, mothers with babies jailed in Turkey

An initiative called Set Them Free has launched a letter campaign to show solidarity with women in jail and mothers who are incarcerated with...

PM Yıldırım says 5 civilians killed in 82 rocket attacks from Syria in 12 days

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has announced that five civilians have been killed and more than 100 others injured in 82 rocket attacks from...

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