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Judge on Turkey’s top appeals court swept murder case under the rug: columnist

Yüksel Kocaman, a controversial figure and member of Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals, has been accused of throwing out a murder case during his...

Turkey ordered detention of 148 people over alleged Gülen links in a week

Turkish prosecutors have over the past week ordered the detention of 148 people including university students, healthcare workers, teachers, former civil servants and active...

Gülen movement-linked Turkish woman dies in Greece as she waits to join husband in...

Esma Uludağ, a 35-year-old Turkish woman who fled to Greece from the persecution of the Islamist Turkish government led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,...

Turkish authorities detain 6, including former police chief, over harrowing murder of young woman 

Turkish authorities on Tuesday morning detained six people, including a former police chief, in connection with the murder of a 21-year-old woman in Istanbul,...

Recent study reveals many children in Turkey suffer from malnutrition 

A recent study presented at the Turkish Pediatrics Congress last week revealed that one in every five children under the age of five in Turkey suffers from malnutrition, the Diken news website reported.  According...

Journalists demonstrate in solidarity with 16 Kurdish colleagues in jail

Journalists in several Turkish cities staged demonstrations on Friday to show solidarity with 16 of their colleagues who were arrested in the southeastern province...

Pink Floyd musician Roger Waters calls for release of Kurdish singer in Turkey

Former Pink Floyd musician Roger Waters has urged for the release of Kurdish singer Nudem Durak, who was sentenced to 19 years in prison...

ISIL suspects released in big numbers under Erdoğan’s rule

By Abdullah Bozkurt Cells linked to Turkish networks of al-Qaeda and Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) have been mushrooming in İstanbul’s conservative Sultanbeyli...

Turkish soldiers beat, push Afghan asylum seekers back to Iran: Human Rights Watch

Turkish authorities are summarily pushing Afghan asylum seekers crossing into the country from Iran back to Iran, denying them the right to seek asylum,...

13 detained over alleged Gülen links in run-up to elections

Thirteen people were detained on Wednesday on warrants issued by Turkish prosecutors for alleged links to the Gülen movement, a faith-based group accused by...

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New report exposes widespread, systematic rights violations in Turkey’s crackdown on the Gülen movement

STOCKHOLM— The Stockholm Center for Freedom today released a new report, “UN Findings on Turkey’s Crackdown on the Gülen Movement: Widespread and Systematic Rights...

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Dehumanizing a Legacy: How Fethullah Gülen’s Death Triggered a Campaign of Hate Speech in...

Download PDF This report examines the surge of hate speech following the death of Fethullah Gülen, a US-based cleric whose followers have been systematically persecuted...

Family Punishment in Turkey: How Erdoğan Uses the Nazi Practice of Sippenhaft

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