Leaked cables between British diplomats and ministers outline a proposal to grant visa-free access to the UK to up to 1.5 million Turks, the plan intended to be kept under wraps until AFTER the 23 June referendum. The Sunday Times also reported
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan chose to cut his visit to the United States short and skip boxing legend Muhammad Ali’s funeral, even though he was among the first world leaders to say he would attend.
The Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK), a Marxist terrorist group affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), has taken responsibility for a car bombing in Istanbul this week that killed 11 people. The group is warning tourists to stay away from Turkey or face death.
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s president has approved amendments to the constitution that pave the way for the trials of some 138 legislators, including several pro-Kurdish lawmakers who face terror-related charges. The state-run Anadolu Agency said Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday
The Turkish government is permitting the use of the Hagia Sophia, a Greek Orthodox basilica until the conquest of Constantinople in the Fifteenth Century, for Islamic Ramadan prayers throughout the month, a move Greek officials are decrying as “retrograde” and disrespectful.
Turkish police have announced four swift detentions connected with Tuesday’s car bomb attack on a police bus in Istanbul. 11 people are confirmed dead, including seven police officers and four civilians, while at least 36 more were injured, several of them critically.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is continuing his campaign to promote Muslim procreation, criticizing a woman who has not had children as “half a person,” “deficient,” and “lacking” because she is denying the role Allah has determined for her as a housewife and mother.
Turkey’s President has been slammed as “chauvinistic” for his insistence that motherhood must come before a career. Leave campaigners have repeated warnings that remaining within the European Union will lead to political union with Turkey. Speaking at the opening of
Contents: Turkey recalls German ambassador after vote recognizes Armenian genocide; Germany’s genocide vote seems timed to coincide with EU-Turkey refugee deal
The religious movement led by U.S.-based Islamist guru Fethullah Gülen has officially been deemed a terrorist organization by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
On Monday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Russia of using Iraqi and Syrian pipelines to smuggle weapons to the Kurdish separatists of the PKK. The next day brought a demand from Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that Turkey remove all its troops from Iraq.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants the terrorist hatcheries to be operating at full capacity.
Istanbul (AFP) – A Turkish court Tuesday found a former Miss Turkey beauty queen guilty of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on social media, handing her a suspended sentence of over one year in jail.
Contents: Thousands of refugees leave Libya for Italy, hundreds drown; Turkey’s president Erdogan tells Muslims not to use birth control; Population growth rate of Muslims and Christians
Marking 563 years since the city was conquered by the Ottoman dynasty, thousands of protesters on Saturday held a special morning prayer in front of Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia Basilica, demanding that the building be reinstated as a mosque, as it was under the Ottoman empire.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has renewed his call for Muslim couples to eschew birth control, stating in a nationally televised speech that “Nobody can interfere in God’s work. The first duty here belongs to mothers.”
The Republic of Turkey filed a 32-page complaint against the Houston-based Harmony Public Schools Tuesday. It asks the Texas Education Agency (TEA) to investigate and sanction the public charter chain over its practices and affiliations.
Frank Gaffney, founder and president of the Center for Security Policy, joined Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon with a breaking news update about the ongoing battle between the Turkish government and the followers of Islamist guru Fethullah Gulen.
A new report claims that Turkey is only sending the least qualified and the sick to Europe while preventing the highly skilled and academics from leaving. A new report has come out from several member nations of the European Union (EU)
ANKARA (Reuters) – The veteran leader of Turkey’s nationalist opposition, Devlet Bahceli, said on Tuesday he was strongly against a presidential system in Turkey, saying it would inevitably lead to despotism and would be costly for the country in the
The President of the European Parliament has warned that Turkey is “on the way” to becoming a “one-man state” under the leadership of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (pictured). European Parliament President, Martin Schulz, made the comment in a sharply-worded interview with the German daily newspaper Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger
(AFP) – Turkey’s Transport Minister Binali Yildirim will be formally appointed as head of the ruling party and as the new prime minister on Sunday, strengthening the grip on power of his mentor President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Contents: Downed EgyptAir flight an economic disaster for Egypt; A dark shadow looms over EU-Turkey refugee deal, as Turkey passes harsh anti-Kurdish law
Written by German television comedian Jan Böhmermann in response to Turkey’s arrests and prosecution of government-critical journalists and other censorious activities, Defamation Poem has now been banned in Germany. Jan Böhmermann sparked a free speech powder keg with his “Defamatory Poem,” broadcast
A court in the German city of Hamburg on Tuesday banned the author of a poem lampooning Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan from publicly reciting passages from his work. The court ruled that only six lines of the 24-line poem
Violent protests broke out in Bangladesh after Islamist party leader Motiur Rahman Nizami was hanged on war crime charges, including genocide, rape, and torture linked to the 1971 war of independence from Pakistan.
Contents: EU-Turkey migrant deal unravels over brinksmanship on both sides; More refugees now reaching Europe via Italy than via Greece; Italy rescues 800 migrants from Mediterranean Sea, many of them from Syria
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan ratcheted up the pressure on Europe over a landmark migrant deal on Thursday, accusing the bloc of setting new hurdles for visa-free travel and threatening Ankara may go its own way if they failed to agree.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has once again threatened that migrants will resume crossing into Europe if visa-free travel demands are not met. It has been a turbulent week in Turkey after the resignation of Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, and the
“If I wanted to kill him, I would have,” the gunman responsible for an assassination attempt against newspaper editor Can Dündar last week said of his attack, hours before Dündar was sentenced to five years in prison for publishing a report unfavorable to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said yesterday he wanted Turkish citizens to be granted visa-free travel within the European Union (EU) by October at the latest. In a deal negotiated in March between Turkey and the EU it was agreed that
The greatest threat to the West is Islam. Look at every country where Islam is dominant and you will see a total lack of freedom and democracy. Islam and freedom are absolutely incompatible. And yet, we are importing it into
Long-running efforts to fully restore Israeli-Turkish ties strained after an Israeli raid of a Turkish boat in 2010 must now await the formation of a new government in Ankara, Israel’s top diplomat in Turkey said.
BERLIN (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan (pictured) is seeking a preliminary injunction against German publisher Axel Springer’s chief executive Mathias Doepfner, German media cited Erdogan’s lawyer as saying on Monday. German media cited Ralf Hoecker, a lawyer for Erdogan,
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) stands against “any terrorist group” that attacks Turkey, a Pentagon spokesperson indicated to Breitbart News.
A restaurant in Cologne, Germany, selling a special burger named after Turkey’s President Erdoğan has closed because the owner could not guarantee his employees’ safety in the face of threats and intimidation. Jörg Tiemann, manager of the ‘Urban Burgery’ restaurant, told the Bild newspaper
Contents: London elects Sadiq Khan as mayor, the first Muslim mayor of a major Western city; Turkey’s Erdogan threatens EU: ‘We’ll go our own way, you go yours!’; Turkey says it will meet other EU requirements for lifting visa restrictions
Cumhuriyet’s editor-in-chief, Can Dündar, was on trial for authorizing a report seen as unfavorable to Turkey’s ruling government. On Friday afternoon, an assailant ran towards him, shooting and shouting the word “traitor!” as Dündar was walking out of the courthouse.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan told the European Union on Friday, Turkey would not make changes to its terrorism laws required under a deal to curb migration, and declared: “we’re going our way, you go yours”. His fiery speech
Contents: With Turkey already in chaos, Erdogan forces PM Davutoglu to resign; Davutoglu’s resignation may complicate the EU-Turkey migrant deal; Syria and Russia continue ‘Grozny Model,’ killing women and children in Aleppo refugee camp
