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Atilla trial judge orders disclosure of all contacts with Turkish, US officials

New York Federal Judge Richard Berman, who oversaw the cases of Turkish bank executive Mehmet Atilla and gold trader Reza Zarrab for violating US...

UN human rights experts urge Turkey not to extend state of emergency

United Nations human rights experts have urged the Turkish government not to extend the exceptional legal measures it has taken under its declared state...

Turkish FM: US statements will not delay Afrin operation

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on Thursday said recent statements from the US concerning the creation of a conventional border guard in Syria would...

Turkish army and intel chiefs fly to Moscow ahead of Afrin operation

Turkish Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar and National Intelligence Organization (MİT) Undersecretary Hakan Fidan on Thursday paid a visit to Russia as...

Tillerson says US needs Ankara’s ‘close cooperation’ in Syria

In a speech at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution on Wednesday US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson indicated that the US takes Turkey’s concerns regarding Syria...

EU has ‘serious concerns’ about rule of law, independent judiciary in Turkey

A spokesperson for the European Union has expressed “serious concerns” over the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary in Turkey, in...

OSCE calls for implementation of high court ruling in Altan, Alpay cases

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Representative on Freedom of the Media Harlem Désir on Wednesday called on Turkish authorities to ensure...

Turkey falls to Not Free in ‘Freedom in the World 2018’ report

Turkey’s freedom status has declined from Partly Free to Not Free in “Freedom in the World 2018: Democracy in Crisis,” the annual report released...

EP president criticizes removal of HDP deputy Zana’s parliamentary status

Antonio Tajani, president of the European Parliament, has released a statement on Twitter criticizing the Friday removal of the parliamentary status of pro-Kurdish Peoples’...

Erdoğan vows to ‘choke’ US-established border force in Syria

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said Turkey will destroy a border security force planned by the US in northern Syria, the state-run Anadolu...

Report: Turkey angered by US-led coalition setting up Syrian border force

The US-led Global Coalition To Defeat ISIS is working with its Syrian militia allies to set up a new border force of 30,000 personnel,...

Der Spiegel Twitter account hacked, posting pro-Turkey message

The Twitter account of Klaus Brinkbäumer, editor-in-chief of the German magazine Der Spiegel, was hacked late on Saturday and used to post a pro-Turkey message, Deutsche...

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