Police waits to detain a housewife in Turkey shortly after her delivery due to...
Turkish police has been reportedly waiting in front of the door of a hospital room where a housewife, who has just given a birth,...
22 years old music teacher killed in PKK attack laid to rest in Turkey’s...
Music teacher Şenay Aybüke Yalçın who was killed in an terrorist attack by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the southeastern province of...
280 inmates committ suicide in Turkey’s prisons in last 5 years
At least 280 inmates committed suicide in Turkish prisons in last five years, according to the official data shared by Turkey's Justice Ministry as...
Jailed cartoonist receives more sentence due to a letter he sent to HDP’s Demirtaş
Jailed cartoonist Melih Gürler was given a 10 month prison sentence by a court over his allegedly insulting expressions in a letter he wrote...
Dozens including doctors, teachers, housewives, military officers & more detained in Turkey on coup...
At least 39 civilians, including doctors, imams and housewives, have been detained by police in six major Turkish provinces over alleged links to the...
Turkish gov’t transfers detained woman, newborn baby to prison 1,291 km away from home
Detained in the southern province of Isparta as part of a post-coup witch hunt campaign targeting the alleged members of the Gülen movement, a...
Boğaziçi University student commits suicide as dismissed father under arrest for 9 months
21-year-old university student Tuğçe Ölçer died after jumping off a balcony as she was depressed in the face of her father’s imprisonment, according to...
Court seeks revocation of Turkish journalist Öğütçü’s citizenship
A high criminal court in the southern province of Adana on Saturday applied to Turkey’s Justice Ministry demanding revocation of the citizenship of journalist...
Turkish court sentences 10 people to 11 months in jail for insulting Erdoğan
Ten people, including three members of the Turkish Communist Party (TKP), were sentenced to 11 months, 20 days in prison for allegedly insulting Turkey's...
Pro-gov’t columnist suggests setting Turkey’s Silivri Prison ablaze to kill inmates from Gülen movement
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Fatih Tezcan, a pro-government public speaker and columnist, said in a video message posted on social media on Friday that people should gather in...
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