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Pro-Kurdish HDP deputy sentenced to 7 years on terrorism charges

A Turkish appeals court has sentenced pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Burcu Çelik Özkan to prison for alleged terrorism propaganda, according to a...

3 Turkish academics get suspended sentences for signing peace declaration

An İstanbul court on Monday handed down suspended sentences of one year, three months to three Turkish academics on terrorism charges resulting from signing...

Report: Israel buying Kurdish oil shipped via Turkey in ‘disappearing’ tankers

Israel is secretly buying oil from Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq through the Turkish port of Ceyhan, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported, citing an article by...

Workers prohibited from speaking in Kurdish at İstanbul construction site

A construction company in İstanbul has sent a letter to one of its subcontracting firms saying that no language other than Turkish should be...

UN reports on human rights violations and abuses in southeast Turkey

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Tuesday reported on allegations that the human rights violations and abuses...

YPG says resistance in Afrin will continue until town is liberated

The Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and the Autonomous Administration in Afrin, northwest Syria, said in a joint statement on Sunday that “the...

Erdoğan bashes NATO for not siding with Turkey in Syria

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday lambasted NATO for not giving support to Turkey, accusing the US of helping terrorist organizations, the state-run...

Prison administration tells Kurdish woman to speak in Turkish

A prison administration in İstanbul asked a female prisoner to speak in Turkish rather than Kurdish on the phone with her mother or be...

[UPDATE] Pro-Assad groups retreat from Afrin after warning shots from Turkish forces

Pro-Syrian government forces that attempted to enter the Kurdish-held border enclave of Afrin on Tuesday retreated before reaching the city following warning shelling from...

Erdoğan: Turkey foiled Syrian move into Afrin after Putin talks

Turkey thwarted a possible deployment of Syrian government troops into the northwest Afrin region after talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Turkish President Tayyip...

Turkey renames embassy street to protest US support for Kurdish PYD

The Ankara Metropolitan Municipality on Monday changed the name of the street on which the US Embassy is located to “Olive Branch,” the name...

Detention warrants issued for 35 over Afrin messages

Turkish public prosecutor’s offices on Sunday issued detention warrants for about 35 people on accusations of disseminating the propaganda of the Kurdish Democratic Union...

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