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Arrested Turkish UN judge appeals to Constitutional Court for diplomatic immunity

Turkish judge Aydın Sefa Akay, who serves on the UN war crimes panel and was arrested in September as part of a government witch-hunt...

NATO Parliamentary Assembly annual meeting taking place in İstanbul

Chief of General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces Gen. Hulusi Akar is participating in the Defence and Security Committee (DSC) meeting of the...

Erdoğan again suggests joining Shanghai Pact as alternative to EU

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has again suggested joining the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a Eurasian political, economic and military organization led by China...

[VIDEO] Illegal immigrants flee after setting fire to İstanbul deportation center

One hundred twenty-three illegal immigrants being held in a deportation center in the Kumkapı district of İstanbul escaped after the building was set on...

1 Turkish soldier killed in ISIL attack in Syria

One Turkish soldier was killed and two others were wounded in an Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) attack in Syria on...

Despite postponed trip, EP president favors dialogue with Turkey

  Although the European Parliament (EP) on Wednesday postponed a visit to Ankara by two of its members due to a disagreement with the Turkish...

[OPINION] Time to play hardball with Turkey’s Erdoğan

Abdullah Bozkurt An engagement with Turkey as long as its autocratic president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan remains in full control of all the levers of power...

UN official calls on Turkey to release jailed journalists

United Nations Special Rapporteur David Kaye has called on the Turkish government to release all journalists currently in jail, warning Ankara that the need...

S&D says EU talks with Turkey must be frozen if Ankara keeps undermining democracy  

Gianni Pittella, president of the Socialists & Democrats (S&D) Group in the European Parliament, has called for freezing accession talks with Turkey if Ankara...

Flynn’s Turkey lobbying ties raise questions over eligibility to receive intelligence briefings

The position of retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who has been offered the role of national security adviser in Donald Trump’s White House, in...

Number of Turks seeking asylum in Germany rises since coup attempt in Turkey

A German newspaper group report said on Friday that the number of Turks seeking asylum in Germany is sharply up this year and has...

[VIDEO] Pakistan court tells Turkish teachers to approach ministry amid parents’ outrage

Pakistan's Islamabad High Court on Thursday dismissed a petition filed by the Pak-Turk international schools administration against the expulsion of its Turkish staff by...

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