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Turkey concerned by illegal arrests, political trials of Tatars in Crimea

Political trials and illegal arrests of Tatars are of great concern to Turkey, a senior diplomat said on Friday, Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency...

Kavala, Demirtaş’s continued imprisonment makes mockery of Erdogan’s rights plan: AI

Prominent rights group the Amnesty International’s (AI) Europe Director Nils Muižnieks has said Turkey’s failure to release Turkish philanthropist Osman Kavala and Kurdish politician...

Aide says Erdoğan, his team don’t care much about call from Biden

Amid debates about the lack of a phone call from US President Joe Biden, who reached out to his counterparts across the world after...

Turkey plans to host Afghan peace talks in April

Turkey plans to host an Afghan peace conference in İstanbul in April, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Friday, ahead of a deadline for...

Turkey, Egypt resume first diplomatic contacts since 2013

Turkey on Friday said it had established its first diplomatic contacts with Egypt since 2013 and was ready to improve relations with other rivals...

Turkey condemns California’s release of diplomat killer

Turkey on Friday strongly condemned California Governor Gavin Newsom's decision not to try to halt the planned release of an Armenian man jailed for...

Chinese pressure upends Uighur refuge in Turkey

After 20 years in a Chinese prison, Abdullah Abdulrahman joined 50,000 other Uighurs and fled to Turkey, where President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had once...

CoE calls on Turkey to refrain from further implementing new terrorism financing law

In a letter addressed to Turkey’s interior and justice ministers made public on Wednesday, Council of Europe (CoE) Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatović called...

New round of Greek-Turkish talks set for March 16

Greece and Turkey, both NATO members, will hold fresh talks in Athens next week to try to settle their standoff over eastern Mediterranean borders...

Putin, Erdoğan launch new phase of Turkish nuclear power plant

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdoğan vowed on Wednesday to improve cooperation as they launched the construction of a new reactor at...

Amnesty urges Council of Europe to launch infringement proceedings against Turkey

Amnesty International on Wednesday called on member states of the Council of Europe (CoE) to institute infringement proceedings against Turkey for failing to implement...

German minister urges Turkey to uphold freedom of speech after talk with Kurdish leaders

Michael Roth, the minister of state for Europe at the German Federal Foreign Office, has called on Turkey to uphold human rights, freedom of...

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