Deputy of Turkey’s ruling AKP: Peace signatory academics, journalists do not even deserve to...
Şahap Kavcıoğlu, a deputy from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), said academics, journalists and politicians who signed a peace declaration in 2016...
Turkish gov’t detains 32 people over alleged links to Gülen movement
Turkish government has detained 32 people across Turkey on Tuesday as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt campaign targeting the alleged members of...
European court rejects 25,000 Turkish applicants since controversial coup attempt
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has allegedly rejected around 25,000 applications from Turkish nationals related to persecutions by Turkish government following a controversial coup...
Pro-gov’t Doğan Holding’s Ankara representative acquitted by a Turkish court of all charges
A court in İstanbul has acquitted Barbaros Muratoğlu, the Ankara representative of Doğan Holding which has numbers of media outlets, including CNN Turk, Kanal...
German financial police raids Ziraat Bank branch in Frankfurt
Germany’s Financial Police reportedly raided Frankfurt based Ziraat Bank AG three weeks ago, on suspicion of making irregularities in low interest loans over Germany...
Jailed Turkish-German journalist Yücel: Isolation is torture
Turkey’s crackdown on journalists will go down in history as a “disgrace,” German reporter Deniz Yücel told German daily Die Tageszeitung in a Saturday interview, Deutsche Welle...
Turkish gov’t to take a child back from foster family for 10 years over...
Turkish government has added a new cruelty to its numerous persecutions targeting the alleged members of the Gülen movement on Monday. According to an...
COMMENTARY — Turkish probe revealed Erdoğan sent arms to jihadists in Syria
By Abdullah Bozkurt
The cover-up in the transfer of heavy arms to terror organizations in Syria by the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was...
UN experts call for dropping of terror charges against leading human rights defenders
A group of United Nations experts including Annalisa Ciampi, Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Michel Forst, Special...
SCF sounds the alarm on jailed journalists in Turkey at Mänskliga Rättighetsdagarna
Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) urged Turkish government to release jailed journalists, drop the fabricated charges and stop the crackdown on independent, critical and...
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