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Turkey says will not participate in Raqqa campaign alongside Kurdish PYD fighters

Clarifying Turkey's stance in future operations against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as part of US-led coalition forces, Turkish Prime...

NATO to continue presence in Aegean despite Turkey urging end of mission

NATO has said that it will continue to crack down on migrant flows in the Aegean Sea, despite a call by Turkish Defense Minister...

No Turkish airstrikes in Syria since Oct. 22 after threat by regime, daily claims

Turkey has halted its airstrikes in Syria because its air force has been unable to carry out aerial campaigns as part of Operation Euphrates...

EU Parliament urges Turkey to release jailed journalists

The EU Parliament (EP) has urged Turkish authorities to release journalists being held without "compelling evidence of criminal activity." The call to authorities came in...

RSF report: Gov’t controls 7 out of 10 most-watched TV channels in Turkey

In a report released on Thursday by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) in cooperation with Turkish news portal monitor bianet, government domination of the media...

Human Rights Watch: Lawyer says police tortured clients by squeezing testicles

An Istanbul-based lawyer told Human Rights Watch (HRW) that police officers tortured her two clients by squeezing their testicles and forcing them to undress,...

Human Rights Watch: Detainee suffers from frozen shoulder after ill-treatment in custody

Forced to stay in a stress position for long hours, one of Turkey’s post-coup detainees suffered from frozen shoulder, a forensic specialist told Human...

YARSAV’s Murat Arslan arrested

Former head of the Judges and Prosecutors Association (YARSAV) Murat Arslan, who was detained in Ankara on Oct. 19 as part of an investigation...

Gülen-linked figures made target of potential attacks after ministry’s terror list move

In a move that is likely to make them the target of hate crimes, the Turkish government has included the names of 37 people...

Council of Europe expresses concern about detention of Kışanak and Anlı

The Council of Europe expressed concern on Wednesday over the detention of Diyarbakır’s Kurdish co-mayors Gülten Kışanak and Fırat Anlı, asking Turkey to provide...

EP’s S&D: Turkey coup attempt cannot be used to silence dissent

Following the arrests of several more elected local politicians and journalists in Turkey, the Socialists and Democrats Group (S&D) in the European Parliament on...

EP’s Harms calls for end of persecution of journalists in Turkey

Ahead of a debate at the European Parliament on the situation of journalists in Turkey, Rebecca Harms, the president of the Green-European Free Alliance...

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