Middle East
Kurdish Lawmaker Who Lost 12 Relatives In Turkish Airstrike Is Missing
5 years ago, a man on the Turkish-Iraqi border lost 12 of his relatives and family members in a Turkish...
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Fearful of Another Coup, Erdogan Supporters Build Informal Militia
The Turkish president said few days after the failed military coup attempt that he learned about the putsch from his...
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Turkish General Says Superiors Betrayed During Coup Night
25 Turkish officers landed in Marmaris on July 15, 2016, Turkey's Palm Beach, where leaders take a break from their...
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Campaign That Ended Pinochet’s Rule Inspires Turkey’s Naysayers
It is not an easy task to campaign against a change that proponents argue will spawn a better era. In...
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Merkel Avoids Asking Turkey To Release Detained German Reporter
The German chancellor did not ask Turkey to release a German reporter detained in Turkey, hoping to avoid irking Ankara...
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European Rights Defender Urges Turkey To Restore Freedom of Expression
Europe’s top human rights agency has called on Turkey to restore freedom of expression and thought, end crackdown on media...
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Support For Erdogan In Referendum Splits Turkey’s Nationalists
Turkish society is bitterly divided. Polarization cleavage is so deep that it is evident in every walks of life in...
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For Turkish FM, There Is No Jailed Journalist in Turkey
The number of imprisoned journalists in Turkey has divided media watchdogs who track the government's crackdown on media. Counts by...
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Erdogan Makes Case For Strong, One-Man Rule
There is no shortage of colorful metaphors Turkish president would use to promote his presidential agenda. He even cited Hitler's...
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Turkish Police Walk Over Robes, Drag Professors on Ground
Cebeci Üniversitesi önünde akademisyenler ve öğrencileri polis işkenceyle gözaltına aldı pic.twitter.com/BTiZX5Nstf — hayritunc (@hayriituncc) February 10, 2017 A picture...
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Professor: Turkey Purged My Father in 1948, Me in 1980 and My Assistant Today
"In 1948, they dismissed my father from university, me in 1980 and purged my assistant today," a leading...
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In Largest Anti-ISIS Raids, Turkey Detains Hundreds of Supporters
Turkish public is no stranger to the news of anti-ISIS operations, but Sunday's operations were unprecedented in Turkey's fight against...
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In Referendum for Erdogan’s Fate, Few Dare to Say No
Shortly after Sera Kadigil, a Turkish opposition party official, called on her fellow citizens to reject a presidential scheme proposed...
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Three Pro-Kurdish Lawmakers Detained In Turkey
Turkey has never been welcoming for Kurdish politicians. But the scale of the crackdown on Kurdish politics is something unseen...
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Turkey Eases Some Emergency Measures
Turkish authorities have relatively eased some of the measures under the state of emergency, and established a commission to oversee...
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Five Kids Left In Parking Lot When Turkish Mother Detained
A heart-wrenching video has shown that five kids, one of them disabled, were left in a parking lot of a...
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Women Fight In Turkish Parliament Over Controversial Bill
Turkish Parliament relapsed into a rare moment of shame unseen before, when female lawmakers from the ruling Justice and Development...
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Erdogan’s Presidential Rival Faces 142 Years In Prison
"We will not make you a president!" Selahattin Demirtas, a charismatic Kurdish politician, said as he launched a campaign to...
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With New Constitution, Erdogan Eyes For One-Man Rule
The Turkish Republic is on the throes of a radical transformation, even regime change, as Parliament completed 2nd round of...
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