Two Turkish journalists walked free from prison on Friday after over a year behind bars in the trial on terror-related charges of staff from the opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper, seen as a test of press freedom under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Cumhuriyet’s editor-in-chief Murat Sabuncu and investigative reporter Ahmet Sik were ...
Turkey on Wednesday asked the United States to stop Kurdish militia forces deemed “terrorists” by Ankara from moving to Syria’s Afrin region to battle against Turkish military offensive. The Turkish army on January 20 launched an aggression against the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia in their enclave of Afrin ...