Inmate suffering from cancer to return to prison after major surgery
Gülden Aşık, a woman jailed on conviction of links to the Gülen movement who recently underwent surgery for thyroid cancer, is about to return...
Diyarbakır Bar takes legal action over human skeletons found at former JİTEM base
The Diyarbakır Bar Association announced on Thursday that it has started the process to determine the identity of human skeletons found during work at...
Turks filed 2,571 asylum applications with EU in November 2021
Turks filed 2,571 asylum applications in the EU, Norway and Switzerland (EU+) in November, the largest group of asylum seekers after Afghans, Syrians, Iraqis,...
Turkish teacher dismissed after coup attempt dies by suicide
Recep Yaya, 35, a former teacher summarily dismissed from his job by an emergency decree after a coup attempt in July 2016, took his...
Turkish police, gendarmerie commit abuses in earthquake zone: rights groups
Turkish law enforcement officers in the region devastated by earthquakes in early February have beaten, tortured and otherwise ill-treated people they suspect of theft...
Turkey detained 361 people in 2 weeks of nationwide operations targeting Gülen movement: minister
Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced on Friday that 361 people had been detained in nationwide operations over the past two weeks as part...
Migrant children suffer the most from anti-refugee sentiment, say child psychologists
Child psychologists have said migrant children are affected the most by anti-refugee sentiment in Turkey since they are are subjected to discrimination and bullying...
Turkish court files complaint against lawyer of academic who died in prison, due to...
Judges of the İstanbul 26th High Criminal Court have filed a complaint with a prosecutor against Mustafa Bal, the lawyer representing academic Tuğrul Özşengül,...
Another purged public servant feared abducted by Turkish intelligence
Hüseyin Galip Küçüközyiğit, a former civil servant who was dismissed from his job by a government decree, has been missing since December 29, his...
Two Turks arrested after glider crash off Greek island
Two Turkish citizens who managed to enter Greece illegally on a motorized paraglider were arrested after crashing off Evia Island, Agence France-Presse reported on...
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