Category: Politics
The gambit seems to have worked. Police took the posters down, using cranes in some instances, according to videos shared online by the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), which said it would keep putting them ...
Amid skyrocketing food prices in Turkey that deprive many households of the ability to meet even their most basic needs, an aid campaign has been launched by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, as a part ...
U.S.-based Justice for All has honored Uyghur former internment camp detainee Gulbahar Jelilova as one of four “Heroes of the Year” for her work drawing international attention to policies of mass incarceration in northwest China’s ...
Some call him Turkey’s ultranationalist kingmaker, others see him pulling the strings of the state’s security policy. Yet for a man whose far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) won only 11 percent in a 2018 election, ...
Denmark has become the first European country to revoke the residency permits of Syrian refugees, insisting that some parts of the war-torn country are safe to return to. At least 189 Syrians have had applications ...
Sevda Noyan (L) Writer Sevda Noyan, who sparked outrage after saying she had a list of anti-government and pro-coup neighbors that she would kill in the event of a new coup attempt in Turkey, was ...
ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish journalist and writer Ahmet Altan was released from prison on Wednesday, his lawyer said, after the top appeals court overturned a verdict against him following a ruling by a European court that ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan resorted to discriminatory language when criticizing the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) during a speech at the Union of International Democrats (UID) Women’s and Youth Committee, Turkish media reported. “We ...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on April 13 ruled that Turkey violated prominent novelist Ahmet Altan’s several rights, including his right to liberty and security. The court, however, by six votes to one, ...
More compelling evidence has been uncovered from trials that cast further doubt on the Turkish government’s narrative of a 2016 botched coup attempt, lending further credence to the claim that the failed putschist bid was ...