38.5 C
Frankfurt am Main
- Advertisement -spot_img

AUTHOR NAME

TM

16091 POSTS
18 COMMENTS

[VIDEO] Veteran Turkish journalist quits job in protest of gov’t pressure on media

Veteran Turkish journalist Ayşenur Arslan quit her daily program, Medya Mahallesi , at Halk TV, saying she cannot continue her job “as if everything...

Turkish-Jewish author’s killer says she shot her because of her books

Sinem Koç, who murdered Beki İkala Erikli, a famous Turkish-Jewish author of self-help books, on Friday said she killed her in order to stop...

Court releases HDP deputy detained for leading ‘civilian prayers’

Nimetullah Erdoğmuş, a pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Diyarbakır deputy and a former mufti of Diyarbakır who was detained on Thursday on allegations of...

Kütahya Municipality’s controversial sex advice book draws ire of gov’t, opposition

Education Minister İsmet Yılmaz and main opposition deputies reacted adversely to a booklet distributed by the Kütahya Municipality, governed by the ruling Justice and...

French court punishes death threats, attacks against Gülen sympathizers

Following attacks and threats against Gülen movement sympathizers by Turks across Europe, a French court has handed down verdicts punishing two men for vandalizing...

Germany arrests Turkish citizen on spying charges

A 31-year-old Turkish citizen has been arrested in Germany on charges of spying for the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) by profiling Kurds in Germany. A...

Suicide bomber in last week’s İstanbul attack identified

The identity of one of the terrorists who carried out twin bomb attacks in İstanbul on Saturday has been identified as 20-year-old Burak Yavuz,...

Milliyet’s owner cancels paper’s traditional media award

The owner of one of Turkey’s oldest newspapers, the Milliyet daily, has cancelled a media award that has been bestowed annually to commemorate the...

Turkey censors textbooks that include word ‘Pennsylvania’

As part of an ongoing purge of anything that could remotely be associated with Turkish Muslim scholar Fethullah Gülen, who has been in self-imposed...

Man who turned Gülen’s poems into songs detained in Antalya

A man who turned poems written by Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen into songs and released an album including those songs has been detained...

Belgian justice minister orders close scrutiny of Diyanet mosques amid spying claims

Belgian Justice Minister Koen Geens has announced that he has ordered security and intelligence units in the country to closely monitor mosques operated by...

 [OPINION] Embassies no longer safe in Turkey

By Abdullah Bozkurt The combination of both the deliberately ratcheted-up, vitriolic anti-Western diatribe by Turkey’s Islamist rulers and a surge in xenophobic incidents on the...

Latest news

- Advertisement -spot_img