Turkish diplomatic missions in the US are hunting down critics of President Erdoğan: report

Turkish diplomatic missions in the United States are continuing to profile critics of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in parallel to an ongoing witch-hunt in...
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Court releases assailant who staged attack at HDP office in İstanbul

An İstanbul court on Monday ruled to release from detention a man who staged an attack at a pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) building...
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Convicted perpetrator of ‘Bahçelievler massacre’ appears on national TV, defends his crimes

Haluk Kırcı, the convicted murderer of seven university students in what is known as the “Bahçelievler massacre,” defended his crimes in an interview aired...

Cancer patient in pre-trial detention contracts COVID-19

Erdoğan Erduran (52), a former teacher suffering from prostate cancer, has contracted COVID-19 in a prison in the southern city of Antalya where he...

Kurdish teenager fatally shot by soldiers in southeast Turkey

Özcan Erbaş, a 16-year-old boy living in a village in southeastern Turkey's Hakkari province, died after being fatally shot by soldiers, the Mesopotamia News...

Turkey blocks access to 27 popular VPN services amid tightening internet restrictions

Turkey has expanded its crackdown on internet access by banning 27 popular Virtual Private Network (VPN) services, according to the Freedom of Expression Association.The...
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Colonel suffering from heart disease denied treatment, kept in solitary confinement

Mustafa Barış Avıalan, a former staff colonel sentenced to life imprisonment on coup charges, was denied treatment despite suffering from heart disease and kept...

Woman says her grandchildren have suffered psychologically since their parents were imprisoned for Gülen...

A woman taking care of her imprisoned daughter's children said she was arbitrarily imprisoned for affiliation with the Gülen movement and that the children...

Erdoğan remains defiant amid calls for release of Kurdish leader Demirtaş following European rights...

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sounded defiant in the face of statements from Germany, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and...

Turkey’s policies threaten Greek Orthodox community, benefit Russia, church leaders warn

Two leaders of the Eastern Orthodox Christian community warned Monday at an Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) conference that the Turkish...

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