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CoE head calls for ending state of emergency before referendum

In his opening speech for the year 2017, Secretary-General of the Council of Europe (CoE) Thorbjorn Jagland urged an end to a state of...

Italy drops money laundering probe into Erdoğan’s son

An Italian judge dropped a money laundering investigation into President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s son Bilal when the complainant, Turkish businessman Hakan Uzan, failed to...

Turkey, Russia, Iran to create cease-fire audit mechanism

Turkey, Russia and Iran agreed on Tuesday at peace talks in Astana to create a mechanism to audit the implementation of the cease-fire in...

UK Prime Minister May to visit Turkey on Saturday

Downing Street announced on Tuesday that British Prime Minister Theresa May will visit Turkey on Saturday to meet with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and...

Report: Spying allegations against Turkish imams in Germany expand

In the wake of a recent admission by the German-based Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DİTİB), which said some of its imams had acted...

Syrian Kurdish YPG disowns outcome of Astana talks

Syrian Kurdish militia the People’s Protection Units (YPG), the armed wing of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), said on Monday that it would...

Turkey asks Swiss gov’t to pursue Erdoğan critics on social media

Turkey has requested help from Switzerland in pursuing critics of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as part of a bilateral agreement on intelligence sharing between...

[VIDEO] Turkey-trained Jarablus police: Long live Erdoğan, long live Syria

Video footage that has gone viral on social media shows a large group of police officers in the northern Syrian city of Jarablus who...

Astana talks begin for another attempt to end 6-year-long war in Syria

The warring sides in Syria's six-year-old civil war met for talks in Kazakhstan's capital of Astana on Monday after the leaders of Russia, Turkey...

The Guardian: UK sells arms to Turkey as Erdoğan continues crackdown

The London-based Guardian daily said in an article on Sunday that the British government has been turning a blind eye to human rights violations...

EU intelligence report on July 15 disturbs Ankara

A report by the European Union’s intelligence-sharing unit, INTCEN, stating that Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen did not order a failed coup in Turkey...

Turkish gov’t-funded madrassa teacher recorded praising ISIL in classroom

A recording has revealed a teacher who works at a Turkish government-funded religious school in Albania speaking with a student about how Islamic State in...

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