Pro-gov’t columnist suggests setting Turkey’s Silivri Prison ablaze to kill inmates from Gülen movement
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Fatih Tezcan, a pro-government public speaker and columnist, said in a video message posted on social media on Friday that people should gather in...
CoE’s Muiznieks reacts over arrest of Kılıç, calls on Turkey to revert to the...
Nils Muiznieks, the Council of Europe’s (CoE) commissioner for human rights, has issued a strong statement on the arrest of Taner Kılıç, the chair...
Turkish teacher under UN protection detained in Azerbaijan for deportation to Turkey, wife says
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Taci Şentürk, a Turkish teacher who was working in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku, was taken by police to an unknown place after UN...
CHP leader Kılıçdaroğlu calls on OSCE to examine heavy government pressure on Turkish media
Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has urged the Assembly of Parliamentarians of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in...
Lawyer Taner Kılıç, Amnesty International’s Turkey chair, arrested
Turkish lawyer Taner Kılıç, a human rights defender and Amnesty International's Turkey chair, was arrested by an İzmir court over alleged links to the...
Pro-gov’t armed group in Turkey says government supports people bearing arms
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While posing with a gun during an interview, the leader of an armed pro-government group said the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government...
HRW: 18 men affiliated with Gülen movement tortured, sentenced in unfair trial in Turkmenistan
A Turkmen court sentenced 18 men to up to 25 years in prison on February 8, 2017, in what appears to be a purge...
Turkey deports French journalist Depardon after release
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French photojournalist Mathias Depardon, who was detained on May 8 in Turkey, deported from in a plane from İstanbul’s Atatürk Airport to France after...
Jailed HDP deputy Encü given 55-month prison sentence on terror charges
Ferhat Encü, one of 11 jailed deputies from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), has been handed down a prison sentence of 55 months,...
UN concerned over Greece’s alleged deportation of Turkish asylum seekers
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in a statement on Thursday that the agency is deeply concerned by continued reports about...
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