24,706 expelled from Turkish military since coup attempt: minister

Turkey’s defense minister has announced that 24,706 personnel from the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) have been expelled over Gülen links since a failed coup...

12 people face up to 3 years in prison over Boğaziçi protests

Turkish prosecutors are seeking up to three years in prison for 12 people who took part in protests against the government-appointed rector of İstanbul’s...

Inmate with epilepsy who has undergone 3 brain surgeries suffers severe seizure in prison

Former teacher Abdullah Aslan, whose repeated requests for release have been rejected, had a major epileptic seizure in a Turkish prison ward on Monday,...

Pro-Kurdish party members among 47 detained during protest against Turkish offensive in N. Syria,...

Turkish police on Monday broke up a protest that included members of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and the Democratic Regions Party (DBP)...

Turkey summons Swedish envoy over Erdoğan images used during protests: report

Swedish Ambassador to Turkey Staffan Herrström was summoned to the Turkish Foreign Ministry on Monday over images of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that were...

Pro-Erdoğan journalist tracked Turkish political dissidents while using fake name and address in Denmark

Abdurrahman Şimşek, news coordinator for the Sabah newspaper, which is aligned with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has been "mapping" political dissidents from...

2,991 people died in Turkey in 2021 due to ‘violations of the right to...

At least 2,991 people died in Turkey last year due to "violations of the right to life" according to an annual report released on Monday...

Conditions for inmates at Turkish prison ‘much better than home,’ gov’t broadcaster claims

Elif Akkuş, a correspondent for Turkish public broadcaster TRT, spent a day with mothers and children at Sincan Prison in Ankara and said that...

Businessman who went missing in Azerbaijan rendered to Turkey by MİT

Uğur Demirok, a Turkish businessman who went missing in Azerbaijan on Sept. 6, was abducted and illegally brought to Turkey by the National Intelligence...

‘I don’t feel safe in Sweden,’ says exiled journalist after attack in Stockholm

Ahmet Dönmez, a Turkish journalist critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) who lives in exile in Sweden, said...
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