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[OPINION] Kurtuba, a web of jihadist networks, expands in Turkey and abroad

by Abdullah Bozkurt The Cordoba Youth Movement (Kurtuba Gençlik Hareketi), an al-Qaeda affiliated jihadist group linked to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government, has now...

2,981 killed in two years since truce collapse between Turkey, PKK

A total of 2,981 people were killed in two years during clashes between Turkish forces and outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists since the...

Turkish Jewish Community condemns attack by ultranationalists

The Turkish Jewish Community has released a statement condemning an attack on a synagogue in İstanbul on Thursday night by a group of ultranationalists...

Erdoğan to Berlin: You can’t scare Turkey

As tension between Berlin and Ankara continues over the arrest of German human rights consultant and activist Peter Steudtner, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...

Report: Turkey blacklists 680 German companies suspected of supporting terrorism

Turkey has blacklisted more than 680 German companies it suspects of supporting terrorism, a German security source told Reuters on Friday. According to Reuters, this...

Turkey denies targeting German firms, says investments guaranteed

Turkey's Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekçi has denied blacklisting German companies and said German investments in Turkey are guaranteed amid increasing political tensions between the...

Pro-gov’t daily claims rights activists were plotting coup attempt on Büyükada

One of the staunchly pro-government dailies in Turkey, Güneş, claimed on Friday that a group of human rights activists were plotting a coup attempt...

German minister: Turkey is acting like former Communist East Germany

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble on Friday compared Turkey with the former East Germany in the wake of the growing number of arbitrary arrests...

ÇGD report: 318 journalists detained, 103 jailed in Turkey in one year

A recently released quarterly press report by the Contemporary Journalists' Association (ÇGD) has revealed that 318 journalists were detained and 103 of them were...

Detention warrants issued for 159 over ByLock use

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued detention warrants for 159 individuals over the alleged use of a smart phone application known as...

Turkey blacklists 68 companies including Germany’s Daimler, BASF over Gülen links

Turkey has named 68 companies including German industrial giants Daimler and BASF as supporters of the Gülen movement, in a list sent to Germany’s...

Strong quake hits Aegean coast, 2 killed

A magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck the Aegean Sea at 1:31 a.m. local time on Friday, rocking the nearby Turkish resort of Bodrum and the...

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