Turkey

By Yvo Fitzherbert ISTANBUL, Turkey (Middle East Eye) —Supporters of the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) fear the detention of the party’s co-leaders and several other MPs earlier this month[...]

ISTANBUL (Armenpress) — Kurdish politician Ahmet Türk who has been recently dismissed from his post as the mayor of Mardin, has been detained as part of the ongoing terror probe in[...]

ISTANBUL (Agos) — Nationalist Turkish Party Istanbul Chair Bilal Gökçeyurt and the chair of the Turan Organization Ercan Uçar have been acquitted in the case of the threat against Agos.  Agos’[...]

RAQQA (DW) — Turkey has issued arrest warrants for the leader of the main Syrian Kurdish party (PYD) allied with the western anti-“Islamic State” coalition. Ankara accuses the PYD of[...]

By Edmond Y. Azadian On November 8, America reached the end of one of its ugliest presidential campaigns in recent history, the outcome of which stunned the world and perhaps[...]

YEREVAN (Armenpress) — During the NATO Parliamentary Assembly’s 62nd session, Armenian member of parliament (MP) Koryun Nahapetyan in his speech criticized Turkey, presenting it as a terrorist-supporting state, according to[...]

ISTANBUL (Combined Sources) — Turkish human rights lawyer Levent Piskin was arrested on Monday, November 14 during a dawn raid at his Istanbul home, after visiting in prison the leader[...]

MONTE VIDEO, Uruguay (Agencia Prensa Armenia) — The Uruguayan ruling party, Broad Front (Frente Amplio) expressed its “solidarity” with the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) and with the “victims of the indiscriminate[...]

BERLIN (Armenpress) — Germany’s Foreign Minister met his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu in Turkey last week, Deutsche Welle reports. At the end of the meeting the Ministers participated in a[...]

By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach Special to the Mirror-Spectator Living in Europe, the past envelops you like a warm garment, and is never absent, especially the recent past, say developments over the[...]

ISTANBUL (Reuters) — Turkey’s prime minister said he had no regard for Europe’s “red line” on press freedom on Tuesday and warned Ankara would not be brought to heel with[...]