Hospitalization of 84-year-old jailed general leads to calls for presidential pardon

The hospitalization of an 84-year-old retired general who is in prison for his role in the issuance of a military memorandum against the government...

Turkish court rearrests victim of rendition immediately after release

Ayten Öztürk, who was forcibly transported from Lebanon to Turkey in 2018 by Turkish intelligence and testified in an İstanbul court in March about...

Video shows Malaysian police detained Turkish expats at Turkey’s request

https://turkeypurge.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Untitled-1.mp4 A recent video recording submitted to Turkey Purge shows that Malaysia was detaining three Turks in the country at the request of Turkish government. Malay police...

Turkey’s far-right leader calls HDP employee killed in attack a ‘terrorist’

Leader of Turkey’s far-right Nationalist Movement Party Devlet Bahçeli has said a young woman who was killed in an attack on the pro-Kurdish Peoples’...

MP calls on Germany to stop arms exports to Turkey due to its attacks...

Gökay Akbulut, a member of the German parliament from the Left Party, has called on the German government to stop exporting arms to Turkey...

OECD calls on Turkey to implement key reforms to boost fight against foreign bribery

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Working Group on Bribery has called on Turkey to urgently implement key reforms to boost the fight...

Relatives of inmates report mistreatment, lack of access to clean water in central Turkey...

Inmates in Kırşehir Prison in central Anatolia have been subjected to physical assaults and a lack of access to clean water, the Bianet news...

Turkish journalist living in exile attacked outside home in Germany

Erk Acarer, a Turkish journalist who is critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government and has been living in exile in Germany, said he...

Minor beaten up by alleged plainclothes police officers during Turkey’s Kurdish protests

A video that was widely circulated on social media following the eruption of post-election protests in Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish provinces showed a minor being...

Erdoğan’s communications chief signals new regulation on foreign funding of media outlets

A new regulation will be implemented for media outlets that receive financial support from overseas, Director of Communications Fahrettin Altun said in response to...

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