Category: Politics
Ibrahim Gokcek (left), a former guitarist with the Turkish band Grup Torum, is on hunger strike Turkish folk musician IBRAHIM GOKCEK explains why he is on a death fast in the face of persecution ...
Istanbul — Turkey has the biggest coronavirus outbreak in the Middle East, with more than 117,000 confirmed infections. More than 3,000 people have died. But the government claims to have a lower fatality rate than the global average estimated by the World ...
Mustafa Koçak with his family in a prison visit. Mustafa Koçak, a jailed member of the Grup Yorum band who had been on a hunger strike in a prison in western Turkey, died on the ...
The Human Rights Association (İHD) of Turkey has filed a criminal complaint against Professor Ali Erbaş, head of the Turkish Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet), for remarks targeting the LGBT community, according to Turkish reports. Erbaş ...
Ignorance? Arrogance? A gaffe? Yes, Yes and certainly No. An illustration published by the German health ministry triggered an outrage on Greek social media on Monday and forced the institution in Berlin to withdraw the ...
Canada’s ban on new arms exports to Turkey has been extended indefinitely, Global Affairs confirmed today. The Liberal government imposed a suspension on the approval of export permits last fall after Turkish forces launched an ...
Turkish Army distributed photos from an air strike over Iraq against PKK via Twitter. In what it called a flagrant violation of its sovereignty, Iraq says Turkish airstrikes inside its airspace targeted a refugee camp ...
Alaattin Çakıcı Turkish organized crime boss Alaattin Çakıcı, who was freed from prison on Thursday, has released a letter in which he applauds President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his nationalist ally, Devlet Bahçeli, for the ...
Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA) leader Ali Babacan has claimed that Turkey is paying the price of a governance devoid of reason and that the country is headed towards a dead end, the T24 news ...
An organized crime boss serving a prison sentence in Turkey was set free Thursday as Turkish authorities continued releasing thousands of inmates to ease overcrowding during the coronavirus pandemic while moving to keep government critics ...
