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US sanctions five Turkey-based Al-Qaeda facilitators

The US Treasury placed five Turkey-based Al-Qaeda facilitators and financiers on its sanctions blacklist Thursday, as it focuses its attention on the extremist group's...

Turkey uses migrants to pressure EU, Austrian minister says: report

Austria’s minister for the European Union and the constitution on Thursday accused Turkey of using migrant flows as a means to pressure the 27-member...

Wife of police chief, suffering from COVID-19, detained in hospital, handcuffed to bed

Esmahan Demirhan, the wife of a former police chief who led corruption investigations in Turkey in 2013, was detained in the hospital where she...

Police detain man with severe Parkinson’s over Gülen links

İbrahim Karakoç, 59, who suffers from Parkinson’s disease and other serious health problems, was detained on Tuesday in Isparta province for alleged links to...

2.3 million irregular migrants denied entry, 283,000 deported since 2016, Turkish interior minister says

A total of 2.327 million irregular migrants have been denied entry at Turkey’s eastern and southern borders, and 283,790 have been deported since 2016,...

Man kept in solitary confinement over Gülen links suffers from facial paralysis

Akif Sarı, 46, who was arrested for alleged links to the Gülen movement and has been kept in solitary confinement since January 2020, is...

Cases of Turkish journalists before ECtHR drag on as they languish in jail

TM Editorial The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has yet to deliver verdicts on the cases of dozens of journalists from Turkey, many of...

MHP mayor orders burning of ‘Kurdistan’ election campaign hats

A mayor from the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) has illegally ordered that hats produced for an election campaign in northern Iraq be burned, the...

Prosecutor seeks acquittal of Turkish-German journalist of terror charges

An Ä°stanbul prosecutor has requested that a Turkish-German journalist who is standing trial on terror-related charges be acquitted, according to a statement from the...

US president to receive Patriarch Bartholomew at White House in October: report

US President Joe Biden will meet with Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew, the Istanbul-based spiritual leader of roughly 300 million Orthodox Christians, at the White...

Pro-gov’t journalists showered with awards at ceremony at Erdoğan’s palace

Not a single journalist with anti-government views was among the journalists who were showered with awards at a ceremony held at the presidential palace...

Pro-gov’t journalist tells Erdoğan to keep his hands off Islam

A pro-government journalist has called on Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan to abandon efforts to politicize Islam, warning that such a move has the...

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