UN calls on Turkey to promptly establish missing educator’s whereabouts
The United Nations Human Rights Committee has called on Turkey to promptly take all measures necessary to establish the whereabouts of a Turkish-Kyrgyz educator...
Turks living abroad relied on social media for earthquake news amid failure of regular...
Turks living outside their home country have relied heavily on social media for news about relatives who were affected by earthquakes that struck southeastern...
Human Rights Watch: Turkish border guards shoot, block fleeing Syrians
Turkish guards at the border with Syria are indiscriminately shooting at and summarily returning asylum seekers attempting to cross into Turkey, New York-based Human...
SCF sounds the alarm on jailed journalists in Turkey at Mänskliga Rättighetsdagarna
Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) urged Turkish government to release jailed journalists, drop the fabricated charges and stop the crackdown on independent, critical and...
PACE calls on Moldova to restore rule of law after abduction of 7 Turkish...
Twenty-two members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) have signed a statement calling on the Moldovan government to restore the...
Germany uneasy with DİTİB’s endorsement of Turkish military’s Afrin offensive
The German government has expressed concern about the Turkish government’s efforts to exert political influence in mosques linked to the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious...
Turkish government revokes passport of former HDP deputy Tüzel
The Turkish government has revoked the passport of Levent Tüzel, a former pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy and Central Executive Board member of...
Pro-Kurdish HDP’s former deputy Leyla Birlik flees Turkey
A former parliamentarian for the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has illegally crossed the border into Greece to apply for asylum and has been...
Turkish government arrests 2 more Austrian citizens
Two more Austrian citizens were recently arrested in Turkey and accused of spreading propaganda for the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
According to a report...
Turkish Embassy in Bulgaria spied on critics, journalists:report
The Turkish Embassy in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia has engaged in a large-scale spying campaign on educators, journalists and critics of Turkish President...
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