Pro-Kurdish journalists say Turkish gov’t asked them to work as spies
Pro-Kurdish journalists Durket Süren and Nurcan Yalçın, who were reporters for the Jinnews news agency, have said they were asked while in police custody...
Turkish security forces strip naked 7 people during detention in anti-PKK operation
Seven people were stripped naked with their hands tied on their back before they were detained as part of an investigation into the outlawed...
Erdoğan labels journalist in exile a ‘terrorist,’ demands his extradition from Swedish PM
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has demanded the extradition of a Turkish journalist in exile in Sweden whom he called a “terrorist,” during a...
Rights lawyer attacked by member of far-right party after İstanbul bombing should be protected,...
Mary Lawlor, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights, said in a tweet on Wednesday that lawyer and Human Rights Association (İHD) member...
Kurdish leader imprisoned since 2016 declines to attend father’s funeral in protest
Kurdish leader Selahattin Demirtaş, a two-time presidential candidate and former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) who has been imprisoned since 2016,...
Former police officer, summarily dismissed after 2016 coup attempt, dies by suicide
A former police officer who was summarily fired by a government decree after a coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016 took his...
5 suspicious deaths at Gebze women’s prison in 2nd half of 2016
At least 5 people have suspiciously died at the women’s prison in Kocaeli’s Gebze district over the second half the last year, Republican Peoples’...
Peace petition signatory academic begins serving prison sentence
Professor Füsun Üstel, the first academic who signed a peace petition in 2016 to be incarcerated, turned herself in to prison authorities today to...
Halkbank says Turkish gov’t working on issue of executive’s US detention
Shares in Turkish state lender Halkbank plunged as much as 16 percent on Wednesday after US prosecutors charged one of its senior executives with...
Turkish gov’t’s purge reaches Kurdish militia paid to fight for Turkish army
A massive ongoing purge conducted by the Turkish government led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has now hit even Kurdish paramilitary members, recruited and...
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