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Ankara warns Syrian regime: Intervention won’t stop Turkish offensive in Afrin

Turkey's foreign minister on Monday warned against any intervention by Syrian pro-government forces alongside Kurdish militias in northern Syria, saying it would not prevent...

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...

[OPINION] Turkey raising a new army against NATO

Abdullah Bozkurt Against the backdrop of a dangerously expansionist and aggressive mood in Turkey with nationalist euphoria and religious zealotry reaching a new peak, the...

Turkish-German politician given police protection at Munich security conference

German Green politician Cem Özdemir was put under temporary police protection at the Feb. 16-18 Munich Security Conference after he encountered the Turkish delegation in...

Erdoğan to visit Berlin once new German government formed

Two days after the release of German-Turkish journalist Deniz Yücel, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım announced that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will visit Germany...

CoE’s Jagland criticizes Turkish gov’t over human rights violations

Council of Europe (CoE) Secretary-General Thorbjorn Jagland criticized the Turkish government’s human rights violations under a state of emergency during a speech he delivered in...

Verdict of life in prison for Turkish journalists sparks int’l condemnation

A verdict of aggravated life imprisonment, or life without parole, handed down to three Turkish journalists on Friday on charges of attempting to destroy...

Report: 8,480 Turkish citizens sought asylum in Germany in 2017

According to data from the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), 8,480 Turkish nationals claimed asylum in Germany in 2017, Deutsche Welle Turkish...

Yücel: I was released with a ruling ordering me to stay in prison

German Turkish journalist Deniz Yücel, who was released on Friday by an İstanbul court following a year spent in Silivri Prison, said while leaving...

Harms: Yücel’s release overshadowed by cruel verdict against his Turkish colleagues

Rebecca Harms, spokeswoman for foreign affairs and expert on Turkey in the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament, on Friday criticized the verdict of...

OSCE, UN representatives: Life sentences for Turkish journalists an attack on freedom of expression

Today’s court decision to imprison journalists for life constitutes an unparalleled level of suppression of dissenting voices in Turkey, Harlem Désir, OSCE representative on...

Turkey, US agree during Tillerson visit to normalize badly strained relations

The US and Turkey have retreated from the verge of a potentially disastrous crisis on Friday, agreeing to normalize relations badly strained over Syria...

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