New curfews declared in southeastern Turkey
The Diyarbakır Governor's Office announced on Friday that a curfew has been declared in eight villages and their hamlets in the Dicle district of...
Turkey’s İYİ Party leader Akşener shows deputies who paid homage to Bahçeli the door
Nationalist İYİ Party leader Meral Akşener has ousted party’s deputies who made a public show of respect to Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet...
Turkish police detain 30 in İstanbul due to alleged Gülen links
Turkish police teams on Wednesday detained 30 people in simultaneous raids in İstanbul in an operation targeting alleged members of the Gülen movement, Turkish...
Turkey issued detention warrants for 176 people over alleged Gülen links in a week
Turkish authorities have over the past week ordered the detention of 176 people including teachers, doctors, academics, lawyers, active duty and dismissed military officers,...
ECtHR condemns Turkey over post-coup arrests of judges and prosecutors
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Tuesday ruled that Turkey had acted unlawfully by arresting more than 400 judges and prosecutors after...
Pro-Erdoğan journalist tracked Turkish political dissidents while using fake name and address in Denmark
Abdurrahman Şimşek, news coordinator for the Sabah newspaper, which is aligned with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has been "mapping" political dissidents from...
Turkish court jails 33 female students over alleged Gülen links
A Turkish court jailed 33 female students pending trial on charges of alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement after they were detained in...
Turkish gov’t seized 232 Gülen-linked schools in 21 countries since coup attempt
A total of 232 schools run by the faith-based Gülen movement across 21 countries have been taken over by the Turkish government since a...
HDP report shows Turkish police tortured 36 villagers with truncheons, rifle butts and mop...
A report by pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) concerning an incident of villagers allegedly tortured by police in the Şemdinli district of Hakkari has...
9 former and active duty officers detained over alleged Gülen links in ‘payphone investigation’
Turkish police have detained nine active duty and former military officers out of 12 being sought on warrants due to their alleged links to...
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