Top human rights groups appeal to Council of Europe for release of Osman Kavala
Human Rights Watch, the International Commission of Jurists and the Turkey Human Rights Litigation Support Project filed a joint submission with the Committee of...
Pro-Erdoğan Turkish-Dutch media funded with Dutch subsidies
Dutch-Turkish media groups that support Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan were supported for years with funding from the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture...
Former police inspector sent to prison to serve sentence for alleged Gülen links
Former police inspector Ahmet Ertekin was arrested on Friday to serve a sentence of more than six years for conviction of links to the Gülen...
Turkish gov’t appointed municipal trustee builds toilets over Armenian cemetery
A government-appointed trustee of Van’s Edremit Municipality has built toilets in an Armenian cemetery and a historical mound on a public beach, the t24...
Turkey has dismissed 4,562 military personnel in post-coup purge
Turkey has purged 4,562 military personnel from the Turkish Armed Forces since the end of a two-year state of emergency declared after a coup...
Turkish police detain yet another woman shortly after delivery
Teacher Ü. Monos, who gave birth on Tuesday, was detained shortly after delivery by police who were waiting outside her room at Ankara Ortadoğu...
Turkish imam announces candidacy for Erdoğan’s party in mosque
İmdat Atmaca, an imam in the Ayvacık district of northern Samsun province, announced at the end of Friday prayers last week that he was...
German press groups call for release of Die Welt reporter detained in Turkey
German press organizations have called on Turkish authorities to release Die Welt reporter Deniz Yücel who was detained in Turkey on Feb.17.
Yücel, the Turkey...
Erdoğan appoints celebrity theologian as YÖK member
Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has appointed Professor Nihat Hatipoğlu, a celebrity pro-government theologian who frequently appears on TV shows and is treated...
27 detained over alleged Gülen links in a week
Twenty-seven people have over the past week been detained on warrants issued by Turkish prosecutors for alleged links to the Gülen movement, a faith-based...
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