Middle East
Erdogan’s False Promises To Africa
In April last year, gunmen raided a school bus in Somalia's troubled capital Mogadishu, killing two Turkish teachers. The killing...
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Turkey Has Price To Pay For Backing Qatar
Last week, Turkey loaded a plane with thousands of milk and egg cartons as part of its humanitarian mission to...
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Armed Vigilantes, Militias Under Scrutiny After Police Gun Used In Murder
A mundane murder case unusually grabbed the attention of national media, not for who was the killer or how many...
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Journalist Faces Life Sentence For Tweeting About Edison’s Bulb
"If Edison had seen these days, he wouldn't have invented the light bulb," celebrity-turned-journalist Atilla Tas wrote on Twitter in...
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Amnesty International Urges Ankara To Release Its Turkey Chief
Chief of Amnesty International (AI) Turkey Taner Kilic has been swept up in a new round of crackdown by the...
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Turkey Crackdown Now Hits AKP Bigwigs
In many chaotic and tumultuous historical periods, political upheavals eventually begin to target the people close to the power center,...
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Turkey To Strip Citizenship Of 130 Turks Abroad
The Turkish government will strip the citizenship of 130 Turks abroad over alleged ties to militant organizations or the failed...
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Turkish Generals Say Coup Attempt Was Programmed To Fail
Turkish generals alleged on Monday that a failed coup attempt last summer was wired to fail, highlighting amateurish planning that...
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No Future For Turkey’s Purged Officials
The humanitarian and socio-economic cost of Turkey's sweeping purge steadily worsens, with dismissed officials striving to make ends meet, fight...
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Turkish Colonel Says His Testimony Taken Under Torture
A Turkish colonel whose testimony was key to support the government's main argument that the failed military coup attempt was...
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Erdogan Signals To Extend Political War In Turkey, Abroad
Turkey has literally become a party-state after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan returned to the party as its leader in a...
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Turkey Cracks Down On Newspaper For Questioning Erdogan’s Whereabouts
At least 4 to 5 days, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan slipped out of the public eye in prior to July...
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Video: Erdogan Watches Bodyguards Beating Protesters In D.C.
The revelation of a new video showing Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan calmly watching a violent scuffle between protesters and...
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Once Hailed As Hero, Journalist Is Now Framed As Villain
Six years ago, when Journalist Nedim Sener was imprisoned, Oguz Guven was among hundreds to protest his arrest outside a...
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No Tolerance Even For Hunger Strike As Police Attacks Protesters
From Turkey's iconic music figure Sezen Aksu to main opposition lawmakers, from internationally famous Marxist sociologist David Harvey to intellectuals...
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For Turkey’s Top Judge, No Rights Infringed After Coup
As Turkey's Council of State marked its 149th anniversary of its foundation this week, its president delivered a speech that...
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Hundreds of Ill Prisoners Left To Die In Turkey’s Prisons
A fresh controversy broke out after the release of Istanbul Mayor Kadir Topbas's son-in-law who was previously jailed over links...
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People Mobilized For Academics After 63 Days Of Hunger Strike
Today, Nuriye Gulmen and Semih Ozakca observed 63rd day for their hunger strike in a civic resistance that spurred national...
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Upheaval Stirs Turkey’s Main Opposition Party
Many expected that a razor-thin win in the controversial referendum last month would plunge the ruling Justice and Development Party...
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Brussels Says Death Penalty Would End Turkey’s EU Bid
The European Union has said introducing the death penalty would end Turkey's longstanding bid to join the bloc, describing the...
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