Jailed Turkish art director Yazıcı: Your Honor, I have an objection to the design...

Jailed Turkish journalist Fevzi Yazıcı, art director of the now-closed Turkish daily Zaman who was handed down an aggravated life sentence by a Turkish...

Turkish court accepts indictment seeking 35 years in prison for Pastor Brunson

An indictment that demands 35 years in prison for American pastor Andrew Brunson, who has been jailed in Turkey since October 2016, was accepted...

Hundreds of families flee Syrian town of Afrin under Turkish military attack

Hundreds of families fled the Syrian town of Afrin for nearby villages held by pro-Syrian government forces overnight as Turkish forces shelled the town,...

Turkish couple in detention over Gülen links allegedly pressured to become informers

Adem and Birsen Erdoğdu, a couple who both suffer from heart problems, have been kept in detention for nine days in Sakarya province and...

USCIRF condemns Turkey’s indictment against American Pastor Brunson

The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) on Tuesday issued a statement condemning an indictment filed by a Turkish prosecutor charging US citizen...

Turkish opposition leader slams prosecutor office statement on Açıkkollu’s death

Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on Tuesday hit back at a statement issued by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s...

Turkish gov’t keeps pregnant teacher, husband under police custody for 7 days

The Turkish government has kept a Sinop teacher who is reportedly pregnant with her second child, as well as her husband, in police custody...

Turkish teacher dismissed from job over alleged links to Gülen movement commits suicide

Thirty-eight-year-old teacher Mehmet Koşar, who was dismissed from his job by a government decree issued under a state of emergency declared in the aftermath...

Despite official health reports seriously ill Turkish teacher kept in prison over alleged Gülen...

The Turkish government insists on keeping teacher Ömer Şamlı, who is reportedly seriously ill and unable to see to his personal needs, in prison despite...

Kurdish Red Crescent says civilians in Afrin under threat of massacre

Stating that 232 civilians, including 35 children and 29 women, have been killed and at least 668 civilians, among them some 90 children and 100...

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