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[INTERVIEW] From Malaysia to a Turkish prison: Former educator recounts abduction by Turkish intelligence...

İsmet Özçelik, convicted on terrorism charges due to his alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, recounted the harrowing details of his journey across...

Past Gülen ties, not only arrest warrants, can prove risk in Turkey sufficient for...

A Belgian appeals court has recognized a former teacher from Turkey as a refugee, ruling that his past ties to the faith-based Gülen movement...

Turkish teacher jailed over alleged Gülen links recounts losing wife and son while fleeing...

A former Turkish teacher imprisoned over alleged links to the Gülen movement has spoken publicly for the first time about losing his wife and...

Former governor arrested in probe into disappearance of Kurdish student

A Turkish court has jailed former Tunceli governor Tuncay Sonel on charges including evidence tampering in a long-running investigation into the 2020 disappearance of...

Documentary says soldiers were lured into trap, tortured after Turkey’s 2016 coup attempt

Personnel summoned to the Turkish Gendarmerie General Command headquarters in Ankara during a coup attempt on July 15, 2016, were lured into a trap,...

Dismissed Turkish military doctor alleges retaliation for exposing abuse of conscripts

A Turkish military doctor has filed a legal challenge after being dismissed from the armed forces, alleging she was expelled in retaliation for reporting...

Turkey indicts 50 people, including dismissed civil servants, over alleged Gülen links

Turkish prosecutors have indicted 50 people in İstanbul, including 35 former civil servants dismissed by emergency decrees following a 2016 coup attempt, on terrorism-related...

Dismissed Turkish soldier dies awaiting reinstatement ruling after coup-era prosecution

A former Turkish soldier who was dismissed by an emergency decree after a failed coup in 2016 died of colon cancer on July 3...

Özel-led party would rank first if CHP split, survey shows

A possible new party led by ousted main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Özgür Özel would rank first in a hypothetical parliamentary election...

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