Turkey’s intel agency renditioned Gülenist businessman from Tajikistan: state-run media
Koray Vural, a Turkish businessman who had gone missing in Tajikistan in mid-September and was being sought by Turkey over his links to the...
Doctor bearing witness to torture in Turkish mass detention center: I kept hearing awful...
A medical doctor who was assigned to conduct physical examinations in a gymnasium-turned-mass detention center following a failed coup in Turkey in 2016 spoke...
Top court rejects exiled journalist’s rights claim against pro-government daily
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has rejected an application filed by exiled journalist and author Can Dündar claiming that news published by the pro-government Sabah daily...
More than 36,000 people faced criminal investigation for insulting President Erdoğan in 2019
The number of people investigated for insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is increasing every year, with 36,066 people facing criminal investigations in 2019, the...
Academic arrested in Turkey due to sexist remarks about women taken hostage in Israel
A lecturer at a university in northwestern Turkey has been arrested due to his sexist remarks about women who were taken hostage by the...
4 inmates die in same prison, raising concerns over rights violations of sick prisoners
Four prisoners have died in Patnos Prison, situated in the eastern Turkish province of Ağrı, raising concerns over the violation of rights of sick...
New Amnesty campaign urges Turkish authorities to end ban on Saturday Mothers protests
Amnesty International has launched a campaign to petition Turkish authorities to remove the ban on the weekly protest vigils of the Saturday Mothers, a...
Turkish writer Ahmet Altan held in prison for 1,500 days without a shred of...
The Turkish government has held novelist and journalist Ahmet Altan in İstanbul's Silivri Prison for 1,500 days without a shred of credible evidence that...
Amid controversy surrounding state-run dorms in Turkey, 140 students treated for illness from dormitory...
In the midst of student demonstrations protesting poor living conditions in state-run dormitories, 140 university students were taken to a hospital for food poisoning...
Police officer accused of torturing former air force commander gets promoted
Elif Uzun Sümercan, a previous deputy chief of the Ankara Police Department’s counterterrorism unit who was accused of torturing former commander of the Turkish...
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