Alwaght-Over the last few months Turkey has been making news for all the wrong reasons from unflinching support to terrorist groups, the brutal suppression of Kurdish opposition and the ongoing ruthless crackdown of the countrys free media. President Recep Tayyip Erdogans response to any challenge or criticism is increasingly becoming ever extreme ...

EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said that Turkey, as a candidate for European Union membership, should respond to Brussels call to defend freedom of speech and assembly. BRUSSELS (Sputnik) Turkey, as a candidate for European Union membership, should respond to Brussels call to defend freedom of speech and assembly, EU foreign policy ...

Top selling Turkish newspaper, Zaman, will continue its opposition activities in Germany after being taken over by the government in its home country, says Zaman Almanya's editor-in-chief. As of today we are printing a version of Zaman that has nothing to do with Zaman there (in Turkey) because it has been forcibly taken over by the state," said ...

This weekend saw a dramatic shift towards fascist state powers being adopted by NATO member Turkey, with the Ankara government forcibly seizing the countrys biggest independent newspaper amid trumped-up accusations of terror links. And, incredibly, this draconian repression against basic democratic rights received barely any news coverage in Western ...

Ankaras media crackdown marked the end of democracy in Turkey, a journalist from Todays Zaman newspaper told RT, promising that the media staff would not betray the freedom of expression and cooperate with government-imposed management. RT:Thank you very much for coming on to RT this evening. Youre in Ankara at the moment, but what can you tell ...

Press TV has interviewed Shabbir Hassanally, an activist and Islamic scholar in London, about a Turkish court ordering a board of trustees to take charge of the mainstream opposition newspaperZaman. What follows is a rough transcription of the interview. Press TV:This incident plus over 1,800, I think, people who have been jailed because they ...

Turkish police forces in Istanbul have used tear gas and water cannon to disperse hundreds of protesters who had gathered outside the headquarters of the mainstream opposition newspaper Zaman to voice their anger at governments takeover of the daily. On Friday afternoon, the police forces clashed with demonstrators in a bid to smash their way into ...

A Turkish court has ordered a board of trustees to take charge of themainstreamopposition newspaperZaman. The Istanbul Sixth Criminal Court of Peace ordered the management ofZamannewspaper to be replaced bythetrustees board appointed by the court. The state-runAnadolunews agency said on Friday that the court decision came at the request of ...

SHAFAQNA (Shia International News Association) Egypt rejected Turkeys request for its Foreign Minister Davood Oglu to meet the deposed President Mohammad Morsi. Turkish Zaman newspaper quoted diplomatic sources saying Ankara is ready to meet with the military backed government in Cairo if the Egyptians allow Davood Oglu to meet Morsi. The Egyptians ...