Court charges jailed US pastor with attempting to destroy constitutional order in Turkey

A Turkish court on Thursday charged American pastor Andrew Brunson, who was jailed in Turkey in October due to alleged links to the faith-based Gülen...

Erdoğan’s advisor Bulut says EU is sick, Turkey must part ways with it

Yiğit Bulut, a chief advisor of Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has said the European Union (EU) is sick and struck by a...

Turkish governor in Samsun says teachers can beat students to discipline them

Samsun Governor Osman Kaymak, who was appointed from Tunceli province last month, has told teachers that they can beat students in order to discipline...

RSF: Media attacks and jail — price of solidarity with imprisoned journalists in Turkey

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has deplored the growing harassment of media freedom defenders in Turkey, in particular pro-government media attacks on journalists covering the trial...

Turkish gov’t jails 8 more people over their social media posts in Elazığ

Pro-Kurdish media outlets have reported that 8 out of 12 people who were detained by Turkish security forces on August 18, 2017 in Karakoçan...

Case of pro-Kurdish HDP’s Demirtaş in limbo over disagreement between Turkish courts

A case into imprisoned pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş has not been processed due to a disagreement between the courts. The...

EU’s leftists condemns Erdoğan’s abuse of Interpol, political interference in Germany

European United Left-Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL) in the European Parliament condemned Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s abuse of Interpol red notices against his critics abroadand political interference...

Erdoğan’s henchman says the US involved into Turkish coup attempt on July 15

Aydın Ünal, the deputy of ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the former speech writer of Turkey's autocratic President and AKP Chairman Recep...

Turkish court arrests soldier for calling Atatürk a ‘freemason’

An İstanbul court ordered the arrest of a soldier on Wednesday on charges of “insulting the legacy of Atatürk” through his social media posts,...

Kurdish victim of torture reveals severe ill-treatments under police custody in Turkey

Abdi Aykut, an old Kurdish villager who was subjected to systematic torture and maltreatment during 14 days under police detention, has told about the...

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