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Germany summons Turkish ambassador over arrest of human right activists

The German Foreign Ministry has summoned Turkish Ambassador Ali Kemal Aydın over the recent arrest of human rights activists, including German citizen Peter Steudtner. According...

AI: Time for Western governments to tell Turkey ‘red lines crossed’

Amnesty International (AI) Director of Europe and Central Asia John Dalhuisen urged British and Western governments to end their silence over Turkey’s slide into...

Turkish PM Yıldırım to Juncker: EU needs Turkey more than Turkey needs EU

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said on Tuesday that the EU needs Turkey more than Turkey needs the EU while responding to remarks made...

ECtHR to give priority to cases of jailed HDP deputies

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) will give priority to applications for the cases of 11 pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputies who...

PEN: Never recorded so many writers in prison in one country at one time

PEN International, a worldwide association of writers, on Monday called on the Turkish government to stop abusing a state of emergency in force in...

Report: 76 newborns stateless as Turkey denies passports over parents’ Gülen links

Seventy-six babies have been born stateless in the last three months because Turkish diplomatic missions are denying consular services to people allegedly linked to...

NATO asks Turkey, Germany to reach consensus over base visits

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has asked Turkey and Germany to reach consensus over the visit of German lawmakers to a base in Turkey’s Konya...

Merkel refuses to link asylum applications with visit of German troops

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said there is no link between approval of applications from Turkish asylum seekers in Germany and a visit to...

US sends message of support on anniversary of coup attempt in Turkey

US State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert issued a press statement on Friday expressing support for Turkey’s democracy and democratic institutions on the occasion of...

Erdoğan to visit Qatar soon, FM Çavuşoğlu says

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will soon visit Qatar to discuss efforts to resolve an ongoing crisis in the Gulf, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu...

Turkey bars German MPs from visiting NATO base in Konya

Turkey has prohibited German parliamentarians from visiting their soldiers serving in a NATO mission on an airbase near Konya. According to dpa international, Wolfgang Hellmich,...

Freedom House: One year after the coup attempt, Turkey is more fragile than ever

The US-based independent watchdog organization Freedom House said on Friday that Turkish society is more fragile than ever and has no clarity on what...

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