Leftist activist visits grave of teacher tortured to death by Turkish police after coup
Veli Saçılık, a sociologist and leftist activist, has visited the grave of Gökhan Açıkkollu, a teacher who was tortured to death while in police...
17 detained as Turkish police intervene in Women’s Day celebrations in Ankara, Tekirdağ
Turkish police teams on Sunday detained 17 people involved in International Women’s Day celebrations in Ankara and Tekirdağ provinces.
Ten people were detained in front...
Turkish prison administration obliges Kurdish woman to speak in Turkish
A prison administration in İstanbul asked a female prisoner to speak in Turkish rather than Kurdish on the phone with her mother or be...
Father of Turkish soldier killed in Afrin turns out to be KHK victim
The father of Turkish soldier Abdullah Taha Koç, who was killed during an ongoing military operation in the Afrin region of Syria, has turned...
UN official says they continue to receive disturbing reports from Afrin
Panos Moumtzis, the United Nations regional humanitarian coordinator for the Syria crisis, has said they continue to receive disturbing reports out of Afrin of...
Almost 60,000 cases filed against Turkish Prime Ministry over state of emergency decrees
A total of 57,679 cases were filed against state of emergency decree-laws in 2017, the Prime Ministry Office’s activity report for the year has...
US calls on Turkey to cease human rights abuses, restore democracy
A member of the Delegation of the United States to the UN Human Rights Council in an address during the organization’s 37th session in...
RSF appeals to ECtHR — #SaveTurkishJournalists
“You are our last hope” -- “We need you” -- “We are counting on you” -- “Will this ever stop?”
These are the messages that...
When the last barricade falls: Remembering unlawful takeover of Turkey’s largest daily
https://youtu.be/iHekYe-4dyQ
On March 4, 2016, exactly two years ago today, hundreds of riot police fired rubber bullets and gassed loyal readers of Turkey’s best-selling daily...
US Special Counsel Mueller investigating Kushner’s ties with Erdoğan’s family
Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of and special advisor to US President Donald Trump, is being investigated over his foreign links to a number of...
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