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EP’s Harms calls for extraordinary EU foreign ministers meeting on Turkey

Rebecca Harms, the president of the Green-European Free Alliance group and a member of Alliance ‘90/The Greens at the national level, has called for...

HDP decides to halt parliamentary work due to crackdown on party

The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has decided to withdraw from parliamentary work following the arrest of nine of its deputies including the party's...

Report: Purge risks isolating Turkey’s higher education from int’l academia

Turkey’s purge of academics has already harmed the reputation of its higher education sector, the latest Free to Think report from the New York-based Scholars at Risk (SAR)...

Turkish gov’t planning slaughter of jailed Gülen followers in staged riot, lawyer claims

The Turkish government is headed for mass killings of people jailed over alleged or real links to the Gülen movement, in a staged riot...

Ankara cancels German minister’s visit, keeps him waiting on phone

Turkey has canceled a visit by German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the last minute, keeping him waiting on the phone twice, Deutsche Welle...

Gülen movement now blamed for police violence during Gezi protests

In yet another example of scapegoating the Gülen movement for any wrongdoing in Turkey or in anywhere else in the world, ruling Justice and...

Kurds take to the streets of European cities to protest Erdoğan, HDP arrests

The Kurdish diaspora living in Europe took to the streets of various European capitals on Saturday to protest the detention and subsequent arrest of...

Number of Turkish asylum seekers in Germany doubles

The number of applications for political asylum filed by Turkish citizens in Germany has increased in recent months, the Bild daily reported on Saturday. A...

1,000 staff members added to personnel of Erdoğan’s palace

In addition to security personnel, 1,804 people work at the controversial presidential palace of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Presidential Secretary-General Fahri Kasırga has said,...

Officer purged from military after coup attempt found dead in prison

İrfan Kızılarslan, a former colonel who was dismissed from the military and arrested following a failed coup on July 15 due to alleged involvement...

After ISIL claims Diyarbakır attack, Turkey insists it was PKK

Following the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claiming responsibility for a deadly car bomb attack on a police station on Friday,...

Cumhuriyet columnist claims Balbay, Coşkun behind crackdown on paper

As nine Cumhuriyet columnists and executives were being arrested on Saturday on charges of spreading terrorist propaganda, a senior columnist at the daily argued...

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