OSCE: Detention of hundreds in Turkey for expressing dissenting views on military operation in...
Harlem Désir, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Representative on Freedom of the Media, has turned to the authorities of Turkey...
COMMENTARY — Erdoğan’s creeping radical Islamist projects in Macedonia
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Macedonia has been targeted by a hostile Islamist agenda discreetly pursued by the government of Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who...
Syrian Kurds: Turkish military forces hit school, water plant in Afrin
Syrian Kurdish groups and Syrian state media have claimed on Wednesday that Turkish military forces shelled a primary school and a water plant in...
Life sentences sought for 7 people, including journalist Hidayet Karaca, over Gülen links
An Ankara prosecutor on Wednesday sought life sentences for 7 people, including jailed journalist Hidayet Karaca, the former chairman of now-closed Samanyolu Broadcasting Group...
Judge denies motion to dismiss, says Atilla case will proceed to sentencing
The federal judge presiding over an Iran sanctions trial has denied a motion by Turkish banker Mehmet Hakan Atilla to dismiss an indictment against...
100 acquitted, 64 given life sentences in military academy coup trial in Turkey
An Ankara court has ruled for the acquittal of 100 suspects while handing down life sentences to 60 others and aggravated life sentences to...
Swedish FM Wallström cancels Turkey visit over its military campaign in Afrin
Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström has cancelled her Turkey visit in two weeks due to the Turkish military campaign in Afrin province of northern...
Turkish gov’t detains dozens of people over their alleged links to Gülen movement
Turkish government has detained dozens of people across Turkey as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt campaign targeting alleged members of the Gülen...
Turkey’s Erdoğan: Obama lied to us, Trump follows the same path
Former US President Barack Obama “lied to Turkey” on the issue of Syrian Kurdish fighters in Syria’s Manbij region and current US President Donald...
Dismissed Turkish police officer dies of heart attack in German refugee camp
Ali Ünlü, a 42-year-old former police officer who was earlier dismissed from his job as part of the government’s post-coup crackdown, died of heart...
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Turkey's record on torture and ill-treatment continued to deteriorate in 2025, despite its commitments under international human rights conventions.
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