Jailed police chief Atayün’s two children detained by Turkish police
Two children of Anadolu Atayün, a former legendary police chief who was jailed in wake of the corruption and bribery scandals on December 17-25,...
Turkish Girl, mother detained over ‘hero’ T-shirt during visit to imprisoned father
A Turkish girl and her mother were briefly detained for the former’s ‘hero’ T-shirt during their visit to the child’s jailed father during a...
Erdoğan tells Turks in Germany not to vote for ‘anti-Turkish parties’, Berlin reacts harshly
Amid tensions between Berlin and Ankara, Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has told Turks living in Germany not to vote for parties treating...
Erdoğanist columnist says he can instruct Doğan media boss to fire all critical Hürriyet...
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A staunchly Erdoğanist Sar daily columnist Cem Küçük targeted journalists at the Hürriyet newspaper as well as the Doğan media group on Friday, saying...
Erdoğan’s most favorite columnist: Vatican uses ‘evicted jinns in intelligence services’
Radical Islamist Yeni Akit daily's columnist Abdurrahman Dilipak, who is knwon as one of the most favorite columnist of Turkey's autocratic President and Justice...
TİHV: Rights of 1,8 million people violated under curfews by Turkish gov’t
Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) has stated that at least 252 officially confirmed round-the-clock and open-ended curfews have violated the rights of 1,809,000...
Turkish gov’t detains dozens of people, military officers over alleged links to Gülen movement
Turkish government has continued massive post-coup witch hunt campaign targeting the alleged members of the Gülen movement with dozens of detentions on Friday. Police...
Jailed woman exposes brutal treatments in Turkey’s prison
A 9-month pregnant woman who has been given a six-month suspended prison sentence has revealed the systematic patterns of maltreatment and repression in Turkish...
Minister son-in-law of Turkey’s Erdoğan: I would strangle Gülen supporters wherever I see them
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Addressing university students being sent abroad on scholarships, autocratic President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s son-in-law and Energy and Natural Resources Minister Berat Albayrak...
Prisoners battered to blindness in ‘sponged rooms’ in Turkey’s infamous jail
Three inmates in İstanbul’s infamous Silivri Prison — Umut Gündüz Altın, Murat Yüksel and Musa Kurt — have been battered by more than 30...
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