Turkey ordered detention of 142 people over alleged Gülen links in a week
Turkish prosecutors have over the past week ordered the detention of 142 people including teachers, lawyers, businessmen, former civil servants and active duty and...
Turkish authorities start legal process to close down the We Will Stop Femicide Platform
Turkish authorities have started the legal process to close down women's rights organization the We Will Stop Femicide Platform (Kadın Cinayetlerini Durduracağız Platformu).
The platform...
HDP submits its written defense to top court in closure case
Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), which faces a closure case, has submitted its written defense to the Constitutional Court, which the party said...
CoE’s torture committee calls for limiting number of inmates and promoting non-custodial measures
The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) has called on European countries to...
Elderly Kurdish couple sent to prison to serve sentence for allegedly aiding and abetting...
An elderly Kurdish couple in eastern Turkey's Van province were sent to prison on Tuesday after a top appeals court upheld a sentence handed...
Turkish authorities detain 11 female students in southeastern Turkey for links to Gülen movement
Turkish authorities on Friday morning detained 11 female university students in southeastern Turkey for alleged links to the Gülen movement, the Bold Medya news...
Erdoğan faces multiple criminal complaints for calling Gezi protestors ‘sluts’
Several opposition parties have filed criminal complaints against Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who referred to the participants of mass anti-government protests in 2013...
Turkish authorities arrest father of three, leaving children without parents
Turkish authorities on Wednesday arrested a father of three for alleged links to the Gülen movement, leaving his children without any parents, the Tr724...
Cadets convicted on coup charges released pending retrial after 6 years in prison
More than 60 former air force cadets who were convicted on coup charges and sentenced to life in prison due to their alleged role...
Turkish gendarmes open fire on van carrying refugees, killing a child
Turkish gendarmes on Sunday opened fire on a truck carrying refugees in eastern Van province, killing a child, the Evrensel daily reported.
Gendarmes fired on...
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