Erdoğan says, detained human rights defenders gathered to plan follow up coup
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Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has accused a group of recently detained human rights defenders of plotting a follow up to July 15,...
European Parliament adopts report advising freeze of accession talks with Turkey
A report proposed by Turkey rapporteur for the European Parliament (EP) Kati Piri and calling for freezing of membership negotiations with the country was...
739 fired police officers suspected of Gülen links returned to duty
Seven hundred thirty-nine police officers who were dismissed from their jobs due to suspected links to the faith-based Gülen movement, accused by Turkish government...
Gülen’s Turkish sympathizer stabbed by pro-Erdoğan relative in Belgium
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Turkey’s artists go on one-day hunger strike in support of hunger-striking educators
On the 120th day of a hunger strike launched by two educators, Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, who were fired from their jobs in...
Turkish soldiers abroad ordered to spy on dismissed colleagues
A written instruction from the Turkish General Staff asks Turkey’s military officers deployed abroad to spy on their former colleagues who were dismissed as...
61-year-old businessman dies from poor conditions in Turkey’s Elbistan prison
Kamil Ü., a 61-year-old businessman who has been under arrest for over 10 months due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, died on...
Prisoners reportedly threatened with death, exposed to torture in Turkey
Prisoners in two prisons in the southern Turkish province of Mersin have allegedly been facing maltreatment, physical violence and torture and being threatened with...
Turkish police await outside İstanbul hospital to detain woman who just gave birth
A group of police officers reportedly await outside Esenyurt Eslife Hospital in order to detain a woman who gave birth late on July 3,...
Turkey detains 9 human rights advocates including AI director
Police detained nine human rights advocates including Amnesty International Turkey Director İdil Eser at a hotel on Büyükada, one of İstanbul’s nine islands in...
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