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Turks may be less happy than they’ve ever been, according to an annual survey compiled by the country’s official statistics office. The proportion of people in Turkey saying they were happy with their lives fell ...
By Cengiz Aktar The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) recently voted to reject an application on the grounds that the applicant from Turkey had not exhausted domestic legal avenues. Applicants were complaining about human ...
Süleyman Soylu Turkish Minister of Interior Affairs Süleyman Soylu said on Wednesday that he would not let police be pressured over a university student whose apparent sexual assault by a police officer during a protest ...
An inside view from the Turkey’s biggest court house, Çağlayan. PHOTO: Hürriyet The Diyarbakır Police Department has revealed that an anonymous witness codenamed “Venus” whose testimony led to the detention and imprisonment of scores of ...
More than 7,000 Turkish nationals have requested international protection in Greece since the failed coup attempt in their country in July 2016, Greek newspaper Kathimerini reported on Tuesday. Just 189 Turks filed for asylum in 2016, then ...
The Ankara police headquarters on Tuesday issued a statement in response to a female protester’s claims of assault by an officer, accusing the woman’s father of membership of a terrorist organisation, Artı Gerçek news site ...
Turkey accuses Gulen of ordering the abortive bid to topple President Erdogan in mid-2016 [Charles Mostoller/Reuters] The order is part of multiple probes into supporters of US-based cleric, accused of being behind attempted 2016 coup. ...
A Turkish police officer is caught on video slide tackling a member of parliament, pro-Kurdish Mezopotamya Agency reported on Friday. Saliha Aydeniz of the opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) fell face first when a police ...
Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) militants raided an old couple’s house and tortured them in northwestern Syrian enclave of Afrin which has been under control of the jihadist factions since March 2018, Iraqi Kurdish news ...
At the conference, Adnan Tanriverdi, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s top military advisor, delivered a speech detailing the inner workings of the “Islamic Confederal State” that Tanriverdi’s Strategic Research Center for Defenders of Justice (ASSAM) ...