Turkish soldiers tortured Kurdish villagers, threw them from helicopter, locals say
Turkish soldiers tortured two Kurdish villagers they had detained, throwing them from a helicopter after battering them, eyewitnesses claim.
A medical...
Turkish gov’t narrative of 2016 coup attempt upended by newly discovered video footage
New video footage indicates that contrary to the
official narrative, Turkey’s then-chief of general staff left an airbase held
by putschists on...
Turkey’s ruling AKP proposes rapists be released from prison if married to victims
Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has brought a bill to Parliament that proposes rapists in Turkish jails be...
Erdoğan’s momentary dozing off in Eid greeting video reignites debate about his health
A pre-recorded Eid al-Adha greeting video from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan released on Wednesday showed him falling asleep for...
Famous Turkish chef ‘Salt Bae’ fined for threatening to kill former employee
Social media sensation chef “Salt Bae” has been handed
a $5,800 fine for threatening to kill one of his former employees,...
Academic who signed peace declaration commits suicide after dismissal from university
Mehmet Fatih Traş, a research assistant at Çukurova University in the southern Turkish province of Adana, committed suicide on Friday...
Whistleblower claims Turkish defense company trains secret armed organization for Erdoğan
A Turkish whistleblower has claimed that a defense consulting company in Turkey has been training a secret armed organization to...
[OPINION] Erdoğan’s secret army is a threat to NATO
By Abdullah Bozkurt
The repressive regime of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been secretly building a paramilitary force with the...
Turkish nationalist fantasies and ‘enlarged Turkey maps’
Alin Ozinian
Misvak, the most popular ultra-Islamist humor magazine in Turkey, published a map of an enlarged Turkey last week with...
Erdoğan: We will write our glorious history the way it was
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday said he will change the curriculum at schools and rewrite Turkey’s glorious past in...
Gov’t removes evolution theory from new school curriculum
Turkey's Education Ministry has removed a chapter on the theory of evolution from a textbook for 12th graders, according to...
AKP deputy: Useless to teach math to a child who knows nothing about jihad
As part of a debate following the introduction of the concept of jihad, or holy war, in the new national...