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Erdoğan urges Bahrain to resolve crisis before Eid al-Fitr

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has urged Bahrain to end a crisis with Qatar before the Eid al-Fitr, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said...

CoE’s Muiznieks calls on Turkey to revert to the rule of law

Nils Muiznieks, the Council of Europe's (CoE) commissioner for human rights, has issued a strong statement on the arrest of Taner Kiliç, the chair...

HRW: 18 Gülen supporters tortured, sentenced in unfair Turkmen trial

A Turkmen court sentenced 18 men to up to 25 years in prison on Feb. 8, 2017, in what appears to be a purge...

İzmir court arrests Amnesty Turkey chairman on terrorism charges

Taner Kılıç, a lawyer and chairman of Amnesty International Turkey’s board, was arrested by an İzmir court on Friday as part of an investigation...

Erdoğan calls on Saudi Arabia to be on side of fraternity, not enmity

Amid a diplomatic crisis in the Gulf as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain severed relations with Doha, Turkish President Recep...

Washington Post on Erdoğan’s purge: Cruel frenzy in march towards authoritarianism

In an editorial on Friday The Washington Post expressed a glimmer of hope that the United States was returning to its championing of democracy...

UN concerned over Greece’s alleged deportation of Turkish asylum seekers

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in a statement on Thursday that the agency is deeply concerned by continued reports about...

Tillerson to travel to Turkey in July to attend 22nd World Petroleum Congress

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will travel to İstanbul in July to attend the 22nd World Petroleum Congress (WPC), according to a statement...

[VIDEO] [UPDATE] Turkey deports French journalist Depardon after release

French photojournalist Mathias Depardon, who was detained on May 8 in Turkey, deported from in a plane from İstanbul's Atatürk Airport to France after...

PM Yıldırım calls KRG’s referendum decision ‘irresponsible’

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım on Friday criticized the Kurdish Regional Government's (KRG) decision to hold a referendum in Iraq’s autonomous northern region, calling...

HRW calls on Turkey to release Amnesty’s Kılıç

Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday called on Turkish authorities to immediately release Taner Kılıç, chair of the board of Amnesty International’s Turkey section,...

Erdoğan approves legislation for deploying troops to Qatar

Amid a diplomatic crisis in the Gulf as Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain severed relations with Doha, Turkish President Recep...

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