UK Home Office report highlights persecution of Gülen movement in Turkey
The United Kingdom Home Office has released an update on its Country Policy and Information Note on the faith-based Gülen movement in Turkey, which...
İstanbul court upholds prison sentences of journalists from Turkey’s pro-opposition Sözcü daily
The prison sentences of nine journalists from Turkey’s pro-opposition Sözcü daily who were charged with supporting the Gülen movement have been upheld by the...
Former Kurdish MP detained over 2014 protests in reaction to ISIL siege of Syrian...
Hüda Kaya, a former member of the Turkish parliament from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), was detained at İstanbul Airport on Wednesday on...
Paralyzed woman sentenced to prison on alleged terrorism charges
A young woman was sentenced to six years, three months in prison for alleged membership in a terrorist organization, despite suffering paralysis of her...
War of high courts: Appeals judges defy ruling to release MP, file criminal complaints...
A chamber of Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals has said the continued incarceration of an opposition lawmaker is legally appropriate, deciding not to comply...
Claims of medical trials on inmates as they receive no-name tablets
Yasin Solmaz, a former Turkish Air Force officer, said in a letter to his lawyer that he and 43 other inmates who contracted COVID-19...
Turkey releases reporter jailed by text message
A Turkish court on Friday released a reporter who was controversially ordered to return to prison by text message three months ago, Turkish Minute...
Businessman battling cancer imprisoned for links to Gülen movement
Businessman Ali Kara, 64, was imprisoned in November for affiliation with the Gülen movement despite suffering from lymphoma and diabetes, Bold Medya reported.
Kara had...
3 Turkish soldiers killed in PKK attack in northern Iraq
Three Turkish soldiers were killed in northern Iraq in an attack carried out by militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), Turkish Minute...
The Year in Review: Minority and Refugee Rights
Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and his key ally, leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Devlet Bahçeli, continued to use a divisive ultranationalist...
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