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UN experts call on Turkey to release all rights defenders

A group of United Nations experts on Friday called on the Turkish government to immediately release nine human rights defenders and two foreign trainers...

EP’s Harms to visit Turkish teacher jailed due to Gülen links in Georgia

Rebecca Harms, a member of the European Parliament and co-chair of the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly, on Sunday will visit Turkish teacher Mustafa Emre Çabuk,...

Tillerson says US-Turkey relations getting better

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Monday that the Trump administration was starting to repair ties with NATO ally Turkey that were...

Erdoğan: Turkey may not ratify Paris climate accord

Following the US decision to withdraw from the Paris climate accord last month, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said Turkey may not ratify...

Austria bars Turkish minister from attending rally marking coup anniversary

The Austrian government has refused to give Turkish Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekçi permission to visit the country to attend an event marking the first...

Germany begins to withdraw forces from İncirlik base

Germany has begun to withdraw forces from Turkey’s İncirlik Airbase after the Turkish government denied requests from German parliamentarians to visit the troops at...

Amnesty denies Erdoğan’s accusations about planning a follow-up coup

Amnesty International Turkey has denied an accusation made by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that a group of recently detained human rights defenders were...

Georgia rejects asylum application of Gülen school teacher

Georgian authorities have rejected an asylum application made by Turkish teacher Mustafa Emre Çabuk, who has been under a three-month extradition arrest since May...

Minister says 450,000 refugees returned to Syria

Turkey's Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has said over 3 million Syrian refugees are living in Turkey and 450,000 have returned home, the Sabah daily...

PACE co-rapporteurs ask for immediate release of human rights defenders

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Turkey, Marianne Mikko (Estonia, SOC) and Nigel Evans (United Kingdom,...

Dutch gov’t says Turkish Deputy PM unwelcome in the Netherlands

A statement issued by the Dutch foreign ministry on Friday said the visit of Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Tuğrul Türkeş or another Turkish minister...

US ‘deeply concerned’ by detention of human rights defenders in Turkey

US Department of State Spokesperson Heather Nauert has said the United States is deeply concerned by the detention of human rights defenders from Amnesty...

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