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CoE says commission hearing victims’ complaints should adhere to ECHtR case law

Council of Europe (CoE) Secretary-General Thorbjørn Jagland has called on Turkish authorities to ensure that a commission that will be set up to hear...

Turkey blocks German Bild website after criticism of Deniz Yücel’s arrest

Access to the German daily Bild’s website has been blocked by the Turkish government, several media outlets reported on Wednesday. The decision came after Bild...

Turks caught up in growing stream of illegal border crossings to Canada

Turks fleeing a multipronged crackdown at home on dissent and objection to the government, a free and unbiased press, Kurdish politicians, alleged plotters of...

Over 125K sign petition urging Merkel to push Turkey for freedom of expression

More than 125,000 people in Germany signed a petition that urges German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the EU Commission to adopt a clear and...

German union claims Turkey asked students to spy on Erdoğan critics

A German education union claimed on Thursday that Turkish diplomats in Germany have been urging students from the diaspora to spy on their teachers...

Pro-gov’t daily calls German police operations on Turkey’s spying imams ‘Merkelist terror’

The front page of the pro-government Star daily on Thursday bore a headline saying “Merkelist Terror” and criticized German police investigations into allegations of...

US court rejects Bharara’s objection to conflict of interest in Zarrab case

A US District Court on Wednesday rejected an objection by US Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara over a conflict...

IVR cancels World Congress in İstanbul due to security concerns

The International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR) has canceled its 28th World Congress scheduled to be held in İstanbul...

[VIDEO] 58 passengers denied flights from Turkey to US in 4 days

  Since US President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Friday prohibiting immigrants and visa holders from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the country,...

Trump administration mulls designating Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group

The administrative team of Donald Trump is debating whether or not the United States should declare the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization and thus...

French top court rules Armenian genocide denial is not a crime

France's Constitutional Council ruled on Thursday that parts of an Armenian genocide denial act is an “unnecessary and disproportionate attack against freedom of speech”...

Trump to order Pentagon to set up ‘safe zones’ for refugees in Syria

US President Donald Trump is expected to order the Pentagon and the State Department in the coming days to craft a plan for setting...

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