Lawyer for Kurdish family massacred in Konya receiving death threats
Abdurrahman Karabulut, the lawyer for a Kurdish family, seven of whose members were murdered in the central Turkish province of Konya last Friday, has...
JWF report reveals Gülen affiliated science schools, seized by Turkish gov’t, turned into hub...
A report, released by the Journalists and Writers Foundation (JWF) on March 2017 on the fate and state of private educational institutions and educators...
Turkish gov’t issues detention warrant for prominent US diplomat McGurk
Turkish government has issued a detention warrant for Brett McGurk, US Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter the Islamic State in...
Family-wide persecution: Turkish gov’t keeps 7 members of Demir Family in prison over alleged...
A Turkish building contractor, who live in Fethiye district of Muğla province and was denaturalized as part of the government’s post-coup witch hunt of...
Juncker: Erdoğan wants EU to halt membership talks with Turkey
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Tuesday said Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan wants the EU to halt membership talks with his country.
Asking...
Pro-Erdoğan lawyers file criminal complaint against US officials on terror charges
A group of pro-Erdoğan lawyers in Turkey have filed what appears to be a frivolous criminal complaint on terror charges against prominent names in...
Turkey is no longer a country governed by the rule of law, says a...
In a new report unveiled today as part of continuing series that focus on human rights violations and arbitrariness in the application of the...
Germany’s Green Party co-chair Özdemir: Turkey’s black lists prepared by a police state
Asking Germany to inform its citizens about whether they are blacklisted by Turkey, Cem Özdemir, co-leader of the Green Party in Germany, has said...
Turkey’s Erdoğan slams release of veteran Kurdish politician Türk from prison
Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday criticized the release of Ahmet Türk, a veteran Kurdish politician and former mayor of Mardin, from...
Turkish woman in symbol photo: These red crosses mean that Alevis to be killed
Yüksel Kalın, whose photograph has been the symbol of deep anxiety of the Alevi community whose houses were marked with red crosses in Turkey's...
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