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[OPINION] Demonization of the Gülen movement unfair and baseless
Prof. Mehmet Efe ÇamanThe Gülen movement is one of two marginalized groups in present-day Turkey along with the with Kurds. However, the situation was...
Babacan says Erdoğan’s coronavirus response falls short of protecting economy: report
The man who’s widely credited with shepherding Turkey
through its two biggest crises in as many decades is warning that the
government’s response to the coronavirus...
Washington law firm provided information to Turkish gov’t profiling critics in US: report
Turkey’s government used a Washington-based law firm
to gather information about its critics, including residents of the US, who it
believed were allied with a political...
Netflix will stay in Turkey after new Internet broadcasting rules announced
US online streaming service Netflix has applied for a
license to continue operating in Turkey under new online broadcasting rules,
the head of the country’s television...
Ex-PM Davutoğlu ignites debate on Turkey’s bloodiest summer in 2015
Former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu on Friday
sparked a debate on Turkey’s bloodiest summer, between June and November 2015,
which saw successive terrorist attacks, saying that...
UK lawyer briefly under arrest over Turkish extradition request alleging Gülen links
Özcan Keleş, a British
lawyer, was arrested on Monday and is facing possible extradition to Turkey on
terrorism charges due to his links to the Gülen...
SCF calls for Erdoğan to stop jailing journalists in New York Times ad
The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF), a
Swedish-based rights advocacy organization, on Thursday ran an advertisement in
The New York Times US edition to mark UN...
Turkey remains 157th out of 180 countries in media freedom index: RSF
Turkey’s ranking in Reporters Without Borders’ (RSF) 2018
World Press Freedom Index, released on Thursday, remained at 157th
out of 180 countries as the country continues...
Prosecutor seeks aggravated life for 59 defendants in corruption probe trial
An İstanbul prosecutor is seeking aggravated life sentences for 59 defendants including Turkish-Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen and police chiefs on charges of attempting to...
Turkish TV commercial under investigation for featuring actor resembling Gülen
Turkey’s Health Ministry has launched an investigation into the production of a one-minute, 56-second commercial due to the resemblance of one of the actors...
[OPINION] Erdoğan sends an operative as ambassador to the Netherlands
Abdullah BozkurtThe appointment of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan confidante and corrupt politician Şaban Dişli as a non-career ambassador to the Netherlands suggests the Turkish Islamist...
Erdoğan calls on people to convert savings to Turkish lira
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday held a meeting at the presidential palace to announce a plan that includes some 400 projects which will...