Middle East
Turkey Says Terror Groups Gasping For Last Breaths With Attacks
Turkey was struck by another terror attack on Thursday, this time in its coastal province of Izmir, killing at least...
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For Further Purges, Turkey Extends Emergency Rule
As Turkey grapples with a myriad of challenges in the wake of a deadly New Year’s Eve attack, the Turkish...
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Once A Tourist Hub, Turkey Is Now Spelled With Terrorism, Violence
Is Turkey turning into another Iraq or Syria? This is the question everybody in Turkey seems to be asking these...
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Turkey Is Doing Damage Control After Weeks-long Anti-Santa Campaign
As Turkey still reels from the horror unleashed by a gunman at a famous nightclub on the shores of Bosporus...
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Turkish Fashion Designer Attacked, Detained Over Tweet
Turkish fashion designer Barbaros Sansal was attacked by a group of an angry mob on the airport apron as he...
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Amnesty: Half Million Left Homeless In Turkey’s ‘Collective Punishment’ Of Kurds
When residents of Sirnak returned to the city last month after Turkish authorities lifted 8-month curfew during intense urban fighting...
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Gift From God: How Erdogan Turned July 15 Into Windfall
Although almost five months have passed since an abortive coup that shattered and upset every aspect of political and social...
Read moreMother Says Ran Out Of Excuses When Kids Want Video Call With Imprisoned Father
If there is one thing that characterizes the ongoing purge in Turkey is the number of children left behind without...
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New Constitution To Give Erdogan All-Powerful Presidency
Turkey’s already powerful President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will be able to appoint heads of military, intelligence agencies, heads of top...
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Childcare, Cultural Centers, Environmental Groups. 370 Turkish NGOs Suspended
On Friday, members of an Istanbul-based non-governmental organization (NGO), which is focused on environmental issues, were stunned by the news:...
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Turkish Gov’t Unveils 16 Ways to Identify Gulenist
Turkish authorities have finally come up with a detailed set of measures and criteria to identify suspected Gulenist public officials...
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Relatives Fear Turkish Govt May Kill Prisoners Through Staged Riot
Prisoners jailed in the post-coup crackdown in Istanbul and Ankara these days have far serious problem than torture and ill-treatment:...
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In Turkey, You Are Guilty Until Proven Innocent
TL250.000. Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Turkish Liras. This is the figure (~$80k) a lawyer asked from the family of...
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Turkey Descends Into Political Turmoil after Detention of Kurdish MPs
When the current Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in 2002, one of the party’s promises was to...
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Op-Ed: To Transform Turkey, Erdogan Needs Chaos
Everybody is struggling to understand why Turkish authorities would arrest lawmakers of Turkey’s third largest opposition party unless they wanted...
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Turkey Blocks Social Media To Curb Street Protests
It is now a tradition: A bombing attack, media crackdown or mass arrest of dissenting voices is quickly followed by...
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1994-2016. Turkey Detains Kurdish Politicians, Again
Turkish authorities have detained 12 deputies of pro-Kurdish People’s Democracy Party (HDP), including co-chairs, in simultaneous police operations across the...
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Turkish Generals Subject To Searches In Sign Of Mistrust
When hundreds of generals and officers from all ranks flocked to Anitkabir, the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of...
Read moreDiyarbakir: A City Under Siege
Within just a span of one week, Diyarbakir has gone through unprecedented hardships that another city on earth could go...
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Exploiting Divisions, Turkish Gov’t Raids Opposition Paper
Only two days after the government shut down 15 media outlets, Turkish authorities intensified their crackdown on whatever left of...
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