Amnesty starts campaign calling on Turkish authorities to investigate enforced disappearance of purged civil...
Amnesty International issued an urgent call for action on Monday for the investigation of the suspected enforced disappearance of Hüseyin Galip Küçüközyiğit, a former...
Erdoğan invokes pan-Turkic ‘Kızıl Elma’ myth as Turkish military aims at Afrin
Turkey’s autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday invoked a militaristic Turkish myth that symbolizes world domination and unification of all Turkic peoples as...
Gendarmerie releases photos of Turkish asylum seekers and their children after pushback by Greece
Turkey’s gendarmerie released photos of Turkish asylum seekers and their children who were apprehended after being pushed back by Greek authorities, Turkish Minute reported...
World physicians demand release of Turkish medical professionals in letter to Erdoğan
Physicians from prominent international medical associations have in a letter called for the immediate release of 11 members of the Turkish Medical Association’s (TTB,...
Turkish police raid homes of members of pro-Kurdish HDP, detain 36 on terror charges
Turkish police raided the homes of members and officials of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and the headquarters of an art association on...
Lawyer for Kurdish family massacred in Konya receiving death threats
Abdurrahman Karabulut, the lawyer for a Kurdish family, seven of whose members were murdered in the central Turkish province of Konya last Friday, has...
Jailed Kurdish journalist Doğan says Turkish prison guards destroyed her paintings
Zehra Doğan, a Kurdish journalist and artist who has been in prison for over a year, has said paintings she made in prison have...
Police officer who crushed boy to death in SE Turkey walks free
A police officer who caused the death of a 7-year-old boy in southeastern Turkey last week with an armored vehicle he was driving has...
Turkish court rules for continuation of TRT employees’ imprisonment over alleged Gülen links
A court in Ankara ruled on Wednesday for a continuation of the imprisonment of nine dismissed employees of Turkey's state broadcaster TRT during a...
Turkey gov’t systematically jails women in persecution of critics
As part of escalating crackdown on dissent and criticism which landed almost 50,000 people in jail in the last six months alone, Turkish government...
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