The Guardian | Turkey unity rally draws thousands as post-coup torture claims emerge The Guardian In the latest reaction, the prime minister, Binali Yıldırım, said Turkey would disband Erdoğan's 2,500-strong Presidential Guard, almost 300 of whose members have been detained. Under new emergency powers, they can be held without charge for 30 days. Turkey: Independent monitors must be allowed to access detainees amid torture allegations Detainees beaten, tortured and raped after failed Turkey coup, Amnesty says Amnesty International: After Turkey's Failed Coup, Some Detainees Are Tortured, Raped |
Aljazeera.com | Police, civilians killed in Turkey car bomb blast Aljazeera.com At least four police officers and three civilians, including a child, have been killed in a powerful car bomb explosion outside a police station near Turkey's southeastern city of Diyarbakir, according to state media. A further 21 people, including six ... Six people killed in PKK car bombing in Turkey's southeast: deputy PM Six people killed in PKK car bombing in Turkey's south-east, Deputy PM says Car Bomb Kills Three In Southeastern Turkey |
Foreign Policy | Exclusive: Behind Closed Doors at the UN, Russia and Turkey Are Still Battling Foreign Policy But there have been few signs so far of a major thaw at the United Nations, where Russian ambassador Vitaly Churkin used a closed-door session of the U.N. Security Council last week to criticize Turkey for permitting what he claims is the continued ... Turkey's improved relationship with Russia is unlikely to change its stance on Syria's president: Assad must go The Meaning of Turkey's Five Million Strong Nationalist Moment Analyst: Warming in Russia-Turkey relations to persuade other countries to negotiate |
Telegraph.co.uk | Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan addresses his supporters Credit: REUTERS Telegraph.co.uk Ankara has summoned Austria's ambassador this weekend over over a news ticker headline in Vienna airport claiming Turkey had legalised sex with children. Images shared on social media showed a headline displayed at an airport screen saying “Turkey ... Give us EU visa freedom in October or abandon migrant deal, Turkey says Turkey hits back after Sweden accuses it of legalising child sex Turkey repeats ultimatum over EU visa rules |
TIME | The Coup May Have Failed But Fear Still Rules Turkey TIME A month ago, on the night of the bloody coup attempt here in Turkey, I together with millions in Istanbul and Ankara experienced gut-tightening fear as explosions shook our living rooms and gunfire crackled outside our windows. Downstairs my neighbours ... What Turkey's crackdown looks like one month on Decades of planning went into Turkey's failed coup, investigators allege Police Raid Courthouse as Turkey Crackdown Continues |
Newsweek | US Turkey Airbase Nukes At Risk of Seizure From 'Terrorists': Report Newsweek A missile-loaded Turkish Air Force warplane takes off from the Incirlik Air Base, in the outskirts of the city of Adana, southeastern Turkey, on July 28, 2015. A think-tank report released on Monday said that U.S. nuclear weapons stored at the air base ... US nukes in Turkey vulnerable to 'terrorists & other hostile forces' – think tank US nukes at Turkey base at risk of seizure: report Congress was briefed on possibly moving the US's nuclear weapons from Turkey's Incirlik Air Base |
BBC News | Islamic State says bus blast killed 50 fighters at Syria-Turkey crossing Reuters Pictures circulating on social media showed the burnt-out remains of a bus and medics treating wounded people. Turkey's CNN Turk television reported that the explosion occurred at the entrance to the Atmeh refugee camp in Syria, near the frontier ... Syria conflict: Bus blast kills rebels near Turkey border Bus blast kills fighters at Syrian border crossing with Turkey |
The Guardian | Chemical castration of sex offenders in Turkey condemned by women's groups The Guardian Women's rights groups, lawyers and doctors have condemned Turkey's decision to introduce a mandatory chemical castration programme for convicted sex offenders, arguing the treatment does not address the underlying reasons for widespread violence ... |
The Guardian | What's it like living in Turkey one month after the failed coup? The Guardian A month has passed since the failed military coup in Turkey. The nightly demonstrations against the attempted coup culminated in pro-government rally in Istanbul a week last Sunday, where hundreds of thousands of flag-waving supporters were addressed ... |
Turkey summons Austria charge d'affaires over "indecent" report Reuters "Our disturbance and reaction over this display which tarnishes Turkey's image and deliberately misinforms the public have been strongly conveyed to the charge d'affaires," the Turkish ministry official said, adding that the headline was removed ... |