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AI launches signature campaign demanding release of jailed academics

Prominent human rights group Amnesty International (AI) has launched a signature campaign calling for the release of four academics who are currently in pre-trial...

Turkey rejects EP report, declares it ‘null and void’

Turkey said on Thursday that it rejects a European Parliament report which accused Ankara of "backsliding" on democracy with recent regression on fundemental rights...

Erdoğan thanks Egypt as OIC term presidency handed over to Turkey

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan thanked Egypt for Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) presidency as the rotating term presidency was handed over to Turkey...

Putin says Turkey is a friend, but has trouble with some politicians

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he sees Turkey as a friendly nation, but has some trouble with its politicians. Putin, who was speaking in...

Turkey says killed 362 ISIL militants in retaliation for border attacks in 3 months

The Turkish defense minister has said the military killed 362 members of the terrorist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) since January...

CPJ calls on Turkey to catch ISIL killers of Syrian journalist

A US-based leading media advocacy group on Wednesday called on Turkey to protect journalists after a Syrian reporter was gunned down in broad daylight...

Turkey’s Kilis hit by rocket fire for 3rd day in a row

Three more rockets fired from areas held by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria landed in the city center...

Turkish military strikes back at ISIL after rocket attacks from Syria

The Turkish military hit targets held by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in northern Syria after rockets fired from across...

Merkel stresses freedom of art amid Turkish pressure over Erdoğan poem

German chancellor Angela Merkel has underlined that her country is strongly committed to freedom of expression as well as freedom of art amid growing...

Syrian journalist shot by ISIL in Gaziantep passes away

A Syrian journalist who was allegedly shot by members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the Turkish border province...

One killed, 17 injured as rockets from Syria hit Turkish border province

One was killed and twenty were reportedly injured after seven rockets fired from Syria landed in the Kilis city center on Monday and Tuesday.  On Monday,...

Turkey asks Germany to put ZDF comedian on trial for ‘insulting’ Erdoğan

The Turkish government has officially asked German authorities to put a famous TV comedian on trial on charges of “insulting” Turkish President Recep Tayyip...

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