Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan apparently didn’t get the memo that meddling in other countries’ elections is a terrible offense. On Friday, he damned Germany’s major political parties as “enemies of Turkey” and urged Turks living in Germany not to vote for any of them.
The government of Ankara, the capital of Turkey, inaugurated a park honoring late dictator and mass murderer Fidel Castro on the occasion of what would have been his 91st birthday, August 13.
ISTANBUL (AP) – Turkey’s EU minister has condemned German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s reluctance to expand the European Union’s customs union with Turkey. Speaking in Ankara on Thursday, Omer Celik called Merkel’s statement “unfortunate,” adding that it was a reaction to
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey warned Wednesday that plans by the leadership in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region to hold a referendum on independence could lead to civil war, in Ankara’s strongest warning yet against next month’s poll.
The chief of Iran’s military recently visited Ankara to find common ground with Turkey on the regional conflicts affecting both neighboring countries and to discuss the independence aspirations of Kurds in Iraq.
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) – A Dutch national who was reported missing in Turkey has been found dead, officials and Turkish media reports said Monday.
Turkish authorities reportedly arrested yet another man for attacking a statue of Turkey’s founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in Istanbul on Friday.
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The efforts of U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to officially label the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) a foreign terrorist organization has earned the support of various Arab allies of the United States, Fox News has learned.
MADRID (AP) — Spanish police said Tuesday they have arrested a Turkish-Swedish reporter and writer in Barcelona on an international arrest order from Turkey for alleged terrorism.
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A former member of Turkey’s Islamist party executive council sparked a firestorm last week, even among members of his own party, after calling Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdogan the “founding leader” of a “new state” created after the failed July 2016 coup.
A video purportedly showing heinous beatings and inhumane treatment of Syrian refugees by Turkish troops has prompted authorities in the country to arrest the service members.
Turkey added another 24 arrests on Friday, to the 50,000 or so people detained after the July 2016 coup attempt. A total of 40 arrest warrants were written based on the lengthy investigation of an alleged plot by followers of exiled imam Fethullah Gulen to infiltrate the police force.
BERLIN (AP) — German media group WeltN24 has filed a complaint against Turkey with the European Court of Human Rights over the jailing of one of its reporters.
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A European Union official says more than 850,000 people are now benefiting from a EU-funded project that provides cash assistance to the most vulnerable refugee families in Turkey.
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The Turkish government announced on Wednesday that the commanders of its army, navy, and air force were all stepping down at the end of their terms, naming replacements and asserting that the change in authority was not an irregular occurrence.
Turkey has begun a modest and long-planned, but perhaps politically significant, joint military exercise with Qatar, the Gulf state shunned by several of its Sunni Muslim neighbors in a bitter diplomatic dispute.
Police have arrested a man dressed in traditional Islamic garb who attacked a statue of founder Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in southeast Turkey on Saturday. The man claimed he needed to destroy the statue to adhere to his Muslim faith.
Turkey is building an “International Islamic University” that is intended to challenge the dominance of the Al-Azhar University in Cairo as the seat of Sunni Muslim scholarship.
TEL AVIV – Thousands of Turkish anti-Israel Islamists took to the streets in Istanbul Sunday to protest Israel’s since-removed security measures on Temple Mount, while a jingle blasting from loudspeakers declared, “Hit, hit Zionists.”
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Turkish investigative reporter Ahmet Şık, on trial for terror-related charges along with over a dozen writers and editors of his newspaper Cumhuriyet, called Turkey “the biggest journalists’ prison in the world” and refused to plead, instead accusing the judiciary “lynch mob” of silencing descent.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivered a speech Wednesday urging Muslims with higher educations to remain in Muslim countries to keep their earning potential and scientific achievements in the Muslim world, a message that appears at odds with his claim that Muslims are “Europe’s future.”
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BERLIN (AP) — Austria’s chancellor says the European Union could “never, ever” digest the economic impact of Turkey joining, underlining his country’s hard line against membership.
A Turkish court handed down a historic prison sentence of 217 years, four months, and 15 days to a Quran assistant instructor this week for kidnapping and sexually abusing nine of his students between the ages of nine and 13.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has killed at least three American volunteers so far this month who traveled to Syria to fight the jihadist group alongside U.S.-backed Kurdish troops.
Seventeen editors and officers of Cumhuriyet, the oldest continually publishing newspaper in Turkey, appeared in court in Istanbul Monday to face a variety of charges including “helping an armed terrorist organization while not bein a member of it” and “abusing trust” for their reporting.
Journalists and staff from a Turkish newspaper staunchly opposed to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are going on trial in Istanbul, accused of aiding terror organisations – a case that has added to concerns over rights and freedoms in Turkey.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned Germany not to interfere in Turkish affairs, but reiterated his intention to join the EU.
Turkish state Anadolu news agency has published a list of U.S. military bases and outposts where troops are leading operations to defeat the Islamic State terrorists, media outlets are reporting.
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s government is signaling to Turkey that its patience is running out and it can hit back against escalating provocations, but has sought to stop well short of burning its bridges with its NATO ally.
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s Economy Ministry says it’s putting all applications for the export of defense equipment to Turkey under examination.
Contents: Relations between Germany and Turkey spiral into crisis; Turkey commemorates first anniversary of attempted coup
BERLIN (AP) – Germany’s finance minister is comparing Turkey with communist East Germany after his government toughened its stance toward Ankara following the jailing of a human rights activist. The government a day earlier told German citizens traveling to Turkey
An all-female fighting force from the Yazidi community known as the Sinjar Women’s Units (SWU) announced on Monday that it has joined the battle for Raqqa, the Islamic State’s capital in Syria. The Yazidi women made it clear they wished to avenge themselves for the hideous depredations inflicted on them by ISIS.
According to European Union Affairs Minister Omer Celik, Turkey still desires full membership in the E.U. despite a series of ugly disputes with European nations and, in fact, will settle for nothing less than full membership.
The administration of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has long portrayed former imam Fethullah Gulen as the sinister mastermind who orchestrated last year’s failed coup attempt from his home in Pennsylvania. Turkey demanded Gulen’s extradition from both the Obama and Trump administrations and denounced their failure to hand him over as outrageous.
