Turkish university student detained for wearing ‘hero’ T-shirt, stripped while under police custody
A 24-year-old university student, identified with his initials B.Ö., was taken into police custody where he was stripped half naked, for wearing “hero” T-shirt...
Black humour: Erdoğan says no group’s freedom has deteriorated in 16 years of AKP...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Sunday that the freedom of no individual or an ethnic or religious group had deteriorated in Turkey...
Turkish Interior Ministry to file complaint against opposition mayor over anti-Syrian remarks
Turkey’s Deputy Interior Minister İsmail Çataklı on Wednesday said the ministry would file a criminal complaint against an opposition mayor in southern Turkey for...
Turkish prosecutor seeks red notice request for journalist Can Dündar
The Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Thursday submitted a request to the Justice Ministry for a red notice for former Cumhuriyet daily Editor-in-Chief...
US ambassador: Some in Turkish gov’t want vengeance rather than justice
John Bass, the departing US ambassador to Turkey, on Friday said some in the Turkish government are motivated by “vengeance rather than justice,” voicing...
Turkey’s Erdoğan calls detained HR activist Kavala a criminal and the Turkish Soros
Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Tuesday that detained human rights activist and prominent businessman Osman Kavala was behind the Gezi protests...
Turkey’s autocratic President Erdoğan’s spying, profiling expands in Norway
Two more Norwegian NGOs with links to Turkish government were involved in what appears to be illegal profiling and surveillance of critics and opponents...
Erdoğan’s henchman Külünk allegedly gives order to Erdoğanist thugs to punish Germany’s Böhmermann
German media reported on Wednesday that Metin Külünk, a henchman of Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the ruling Justice and Development Party...
CoE calls on Turkey to take further steps on violence against women
The Council of Europe (CoE) on Monday called on Turkey to take further action to comply fully with the Istanbul Convention’s provisions on violence...
Armenian-Turkish lawmaker targeted in newspaper ads for anti-war stance
Armenian-Turkish lawmaker Garo Paylan was targeted in newspaper ads published by the nationalist Center for Eurasian Strategic Studies (ASAM) think tank on Friday for...
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