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HRW calls on May to speak out on human rights during Erdoğan visit

David Mepham, the UK director of Human Rights Watch (HRW), has called on Prime Minister Theresa May to use the visit of Turkish President...

Foreign Ministry: Capture of ISIL officials in Iraq facilitated by arrest in Turkey

A Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesperson has said a senior member of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) who had been hiding...

US senator tells Turkey: Take a cue from North Korea, release American hostages

Senator James Lankford, a Republican from Oklahoma, on Thursday gave a speech on the Senate floor lambasting Turkey for the unjust imprisonment and bogus...

OSCE’s Désir calls on Turkey to release Zaman journalists

Harlem Désir, representative on freedom of the media for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), has called on Turkey to release...

Turkey says UNHCR call to end state of emergency prior to elections ‘biased’

The Turkish Foreign Ministry on Thursday issued a statement in response to a call by the UN High commissioner for human rights that Turkey...

Turkish citizens can vote in 3 more countries in snap elections

Turks will for the first time be able to vote in the upcoming Turkish elections in Malta, Serbia and Moldova, according to the Sputnik...

Turkish-trained local police to assume security duties in Afrin

Six hundred twenty Syrian police candidates will assume security duties in Syria’s northwestern Afrin region from May 10 after completing a basic training course...

Turkey bans student admissions to 16 French language departments

Amid ongoing Turkish criticism of a recent statement from prominent French figures who called for the removal of some verses from the Quran, Turkey's...

Armenia’s new PM calls for diplomatic relations with Turkey ‘without preconditions’

Armenia’s newly elected Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stated on Wednesday that the country is ready for the re-establishment of diplomatic relations without preconditions with...

UN: Turkey must end state of emergency to enable credible elections

"Protracted restrictions on the human rights to freedom of expression, assembly and association are incompatible with the conduct of a credible electoral process in...

FM Çavuşoğlu says Turkey will definitely ‘respond to’ any US embargo

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on Sunday said possible US sanctions on Turkey over the purchase of an S-400 air defense system from Russia...

US concerned over 140,000 people displaced in Turkey’s Afrin operation

The United States has said some 140,000 people have been displaced by Turkey’s cross-border offensive to seize Syria’s Afrin district from Syrian Kurdish forces,...

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