80 university students detained over Gülen links subjected to torture: report
Eighty university students who were detained in police operations on the morning of Feb. 28 due to their alleged links to the Gülen movement...
‘Hero’ who halted 5 tanks during Turkish coup turns out to be fake
Zafer Onaran, who was covered in the media as “the hero who stopped five tanks” after a failed coup in Turkey on July 15,...
New presidential board to monitor human rights violations from Erdoğan’s palace
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who is notorious for the widespread human rights violations in the country he governs, will monitor rights violations in...
Turkey’s top court upholds rule banning doctors who served prison time on political charges...
Turkey’s Constitutional Court (AYM) has ruled to uphold a regulation that bans doctors and veterinarians who have served jail time for “offenses against the...
Turkish prosecutors ordered detention of 110 people over alleged Gülen links in a week
Turkish prosecutors have over the past week ordered the detention of 110 people due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, according to local...
Turkey’s pro-gov’t daily editor-in-chief: Will you find a better caliph than Erdoğan?
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Turkey's pro-government Star daily Editor-in-Chief Nuh Albayrak said during a TV show on Sunday that he has been raising the issue of reinstating the...
Tortured, robbed and pushed back to Turkey, migrants face rogue force in Greece: report
A Turkish migrant who fled Ankara’s crackdown on dissent has given a detailed account of push-back on Greek soil to Bold Medya on Friday,...
Three Turkish teachers allegedly affiliated with Gülen movement detained in Afghanistan
Three Turkish and one Afghan teachers were detained by Afghan intelligence officials on Tuesday on the request of Turkish government under the rule of...
Czech court releases former PYD leader Muslim despite Turkey’s extradition request
A Czech court on Tuesday released Salih Muslim, the former co-chairperson of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), who was detained and subsequently...
Turkey orders detention of 140 people over alleged Gülen links in 2 days
Turkish prosecutors in the space of two days ordered the detention of 140 people including teachers, former civil servants, academics and active duty and...
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