Judges Özçelik and Başer sentenced with 10 years of prison over alleged Gülen links
Dismissed and arrested judges Metin Özçelik and Mustafa Başer were sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment by 16th Penal Chamber of the Court of...
US Attorney’s Office vows to prove cooperation of high level Turkish and Iranian officials...
The New York District General Attorney’s Deputy Michael Lockart has urged that as the Attorney’s Office they “will prove the cooperation and coordination between...
Turkish President Erdoğan’s chief advisor Bulut threatens EU
Yiğit Bulut, a chief advisor of Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, on Monday threatened the European Union (EU), warning them to refrain any...
Victims of 1915 “Armenian genocide” commemorated in İstanbul
Armenian victims of atrocities and a forced deportation in a volume of genocide carried out by the Ottoman Empire in 1915 were commemorated in...
Man arrested for insulting Turkey’s President Erdoğan on social media
One out of four individuals who were recently detained in Eskişehir province on charges of insulting Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on social...
Wife: Jailed former prosecutor, heavy cancer patient, needs urgent health care
The wife of a former prosecutor, İbrahim Ethem Kuriş, who has been kept in prison for 9 months over alleged involvement into the coup attempt...
4-year-old visits her dad in jail wearing T-shirt with her newborn brother’s picture
While millions of children were celebrating the National Sovereignty and Children’s Day on April 23 with joy, there were hundreds of children who were barred...
Woman looking after disabled children alone as prosecutor husband under arrest for 270 days
Hacer Çakmak is only one of the hundreds of thousands of people who found themselves facing tremendous difficulties after the government started a desperate...
Interior Ministry: 1,015 detained over alleged Gülen links in one week
A total of 1,015 people were detained in operations targeting the faith-based Gülen movement over the past week, according to a statement from Turkey’s...
Turkish government bans May Day celebrations in İstanbul’s Taksim Square
Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has rejected a request from Confederation of Revolutionary Workers’ Unions (DİSK) Chairman Kani Beko to hold May Day celebrations...
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Pushbacks of Turkish asylum seekers from Greece to Turkey: Violation of the principle of...
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