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French ambassador warned not to cross legs in Parliament

Charles Fries, the French ambassador to Turkey, was warned to sit respectfully during a special session in the Turkish Parliament, Hürriyet reported on Monday. According...

OSCE asks for vote recount in Turkey’s controversial referendum

Michael Georg Link, director of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), has called for a recount of the votes in...

Erdoğan says OSCE observers are representatives of PKK

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has claimed that Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) representatives who monitored a referendum held in Turkey...

PACE warns reinstatement of death penalty incompatible with CoE membership

General Rapporteur on abolition of the death penalty for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Yves Cruchten has said plans by...

İstanbul court jails Cumhuriyet accountant over alleged ByLock use

Emre İper, who works as a finance manager at the Cumhuriyet daily, has been arrested over use of a smart phone application known as...

CHP applies to election authority for cancellation of April 16 referendum

Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) has applied to the Supreme Election Board (YSK) demanding the cancellation of a referendum held on April...

Helicopter with 12 on board crashes in eastern Turkey

Twelve people were killed when a helicopter transporting senior police and judicial officials crashed in eastern Turkey. Officials said the police helicopter had 12 people...

EU calls for investigation into alleged vote rigging in Turkey’s referendum

In carefully crafted comments, the European Union has called for an investigation into alleged irregularities during a referendum in Turkey on Sunday, which gave...

YSK cancelled local elections in 2 districts in 2014 due to unsealed ballots

Although the head of Turkey's Supreme Election Board (YSK) on Monday announced that the validity of unsealed ballot papers used in a referendum in...

Germany says 100 of its citizens barred from entering Turkey since January

The German Foreign Ministry has announced that a total of 100 German citizens have been barred from entering Turkey since the beginning of 2017...

Turkey is no longer a country governed by rule of law, says new report by SCF

In a new report unveiled on Friday as part of a continuing series that focuses on human rights violations and arbitrariness in the application...

Tillerson says US faces ‘difficult choices’ over Kurdish militia in fight against ISIL

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Thursday that Washington faced difficult choices over Kurdish militia in northern Syria in the fight against...

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