Numbers of people detained, arrested, sentenced by Turkish gov’t over their alleged links to...
Three people who were detained on Sunday at Turkey’s Ipsala border gate on the grounds that their passports were among thousands of others which...
Turkish-Armenian intellectual Nişanyan says failed coup staged to purge Gülen followers
Turkish-Armenian linguist and writer Sevan Nişanyan, who escaped from a prison in İzmir in July, shared his take on a failed coup in Turkey...
COMMENTARY — Turkey’s Maarif Foundation: Erdoğan’s Trojan horse
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government, led by overly ambitious and self-aggrandizing President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has spent millions of...
Germany warns citizens vacationing in Turkey of arbitrary arrests
The German foreign ministry has updated a travel warning for citizens currently holidaying or planning to vacation in Turkey, saying they could be arbitrarily...
ÖGİ: 30 journalists detained, 14 journalists arrested by Turkish government in August
Turkish government has detained 30 journalists and arrested 14 journalist in August while 2 journalists were released from prison according to a report released...
Turkish gov’t detains photo-journalist Kemal Özer in Tunceli province
Kemal Özer, a photo-journalist and nature photographer for leftist Evrensel daily, was detained by Turkşsh police as part of an anti-terror investigation in Turkey's...
At least 122 people killed in traffic accidents across Turkey during Eid al-Adha holiday
At least 122 people were killed in traffic accidents across Turkey during the extended 10-day long public holiday on the occasion of Aid al-Adha,...
Computer science professor, jailed in Turkish government’s post-coup sweep, gets cancer diagnosis in prison
Under pre-trial arrest for 13 months over alleged links to the Gülen movement, Ahmet Turan Özcerit, who used to be an associate professor at...
Turkish governor blocks post-coup victim on Twitter after being asked for help
Yakup Canbolat, the governor of Turkey’s central province of Konya, has blocked a Twitter account that seeks help for a teacher who was hit...
Germany’s Merkel to push EU partners to review Turkey’s accession to EU
German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned on Tuesday that Turkey is backsliding on the rule of law and vowed to urge other EU member countries...
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