748 people detained in June over Gülen links, says new interior minister
Turkey has escalated the mass detention of people over alleged links to the Gülen movement, ordering the detention of 748 individuals in June, according...
Infants as young as 3 months kept in quarantine prison cells, says inmate
Mothers and their babies as young as three months of age are being kept in quarantine cells, said inmate Emine Trabzon in a letter...
185 face detention over alleged Gülen links in ‘payphone investigations’
Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 185 people including active duty and former military officers as well as former military cadets due to...
888 child workers have died in occupational accidents in Turkey during AKP rule: İSİG
A total of 888 child workers have died in work-related accidents since the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in November 2002,...
Teenage daughter of imprisoned Turkish teacher dies, illustrating ongoing fallout from post-coup purges
A 15-year-old girl whose mother is serving a prison sentence on conviction of alleged ties to the Gülen movement was found dead in her...
High levels of asbestos pose new threat to Turkey’s quake survivors
Survivors of two powerful earthquakes in southern Turkey are threatened by high levels of asbestos released from the rubble of demolished buildings as reports...
Health minister faces criminal complaint for excluding Kurdish on e-prescription system
A lawmaker from Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Green Left Party (YSP) has filed a criminal complaint against the health minister for excluding the Kurdish language from...
Slain HDP staffer’s father indicted on charges of spreading terrorist propaganda
The father of a young woman who was killed in an attack at the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) office in western Turkey last...
40 mg dose of unspecified substance killed Khashoggi, Saudi letter to Turkey claims: report
A letter sent by Saudi authorities to their Turkish counterparts before the halt of the trial in absentia of 26 suspects linked to the...
13-year-old Kurd placed under travel ban, judicial supervision despite suffering racist attack
A court in İstanbul has imposed judicial supervision measures and a travel ban on a 13-year-old Kurdish teenager in a case concerning an alleged...
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