Exiled Turkish lawyers blast Turkish Bar Association for its silence
An advocacy group set up by exiled Turkish lawyers has decried the silence of Turkish Bar Association (TBB) in the face of massive crackdown...
Turkey bans Armenian folk group from performing at festival
Authorities in Turkey’s Tunceli province have banned the Armenian folk music ensemble Veradardz from performing at the 23rd Munzur Culture and Nature Festival, citing...
10 briefly detained in western Turkey for protesting anti-LGBT public ad
Turkish police on Tuesday intervened in a demonstration in İzmir protesting the broadcast of an anti-LGBT public ad on TV stations, briefly detaining 10...
Mother and son phone conversation reveals Turkish guardians in murder of Kurdish prisoner
A telephone conversation regarding 40-year old Kurdish prisoner in Balıkesir’s Kepsut prison beaten to within an inch of his life has revealed recently that...
Turkish gov’t requests that Kosovo extradite alleged members of Gülen movement
The Turkish government requested that the Kosovo administration extradite alleged members of the Gülen movement, during a visit to the country by Turkish Foreign...
Turkish author Yiğit sued by Erdoğan family, Islamist IHH over her book on ISIL
Family members and relatives of Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, including his son Bilal Erdoğan, son-in-law and Turkish Energy Minister Berat Albayrak, and...
Document confirms diplomats spied on Erdoğan critic abducted by Turkish intelligence in Tajikistan: report
A judicial document obtained by Nordic Monitor confirms that Koray Vural, a Turkish businessman who is believed to have been rendered by Turkey’s National...
Turkish court sentences former rector, vice rector to prison over Gülen links
A Turkish court on Thursday handed down prison sentences to a former university rector and a former vice rector on charges of membership in...
Amnesty Int’l: 130,000 purged public sector workers still awaiting justice in Turkey
More than two years after their arbitrary dismissal, almost 130,000 Turkish public sector workers are still awaiting justice and facing an uncertain future, Amnesty...
Turkey arrests 39 more people in latest raids targeting alleged Gülen followers: minister
Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced on Saturday that 39 people had been jailed pending trial following nationwide raids over the past 10 days...
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