Curfew declared in 25 villages of Kulp district of Turkey’s Diyarbakır province
Curfew has been declared in 25 villages and hamlets in Kulp district of Diyarbakır province in southeastern Turkey. Diyarbakır Governorship has announced that the...
Turkey’s Deputy PM: 2.4 pct of public sector employees discharged over alleged Gülen links
Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş has announced that some 2.4 percent of Turkish public sector workers have been discharged over their alleged links...
Doğan Holding Ankara representative Muratoğlu, arrested over alleged Gülen links, released
An İstanbul court ordered the release of Doğan Holding’s Ankara Administrative representative Barbaros Muratoğlu, who was arrested over alleged links to the Gülen movement,...
AKP member posts picture of machine gun, says awaiting orders from Turkey’s Erdoğan to...
Mehmet Aybek, a member of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) youth wing, on Thursday shared a photo on Facebook of an MP5 machine...
23 suspects sentenced to life imprisonment in 1st verdict of Turkey’s controversial coup trial
Twenty-three suspects have been sentenced to life imprisonment over alleged involvement in controversial coup attempt on July 15, 2016.
It was reported that Ankara's 13th...
Pro-Erdoğan Turkish journalists call for assassination of Gülen followers abroad
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Journalists Cem Küçük and Fuat Uğur, who are staunch supporters of Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, made a call on Thursday for the...
Kurdish villagers who were severely tortured in Turkey turn out to be innocent
Three suspects who were severely tortured in the police station for their alleged involvement in mortar attack against police building in the town of...
77-year jail sentence sought for Turkish businessman İpek over alleged Gülen ties
An indictment prepared by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office as a result of an investigation against the Koza-İpek Holding seeks a jail sentence...
Turkey Purge: 1601 people detained, 895 people jailed over alleged Gülen links across Turkey...
Turkish government has continued its massive post-coup witch hunt targeting the alleged members of the Gülen movement and the citizens from Turkey’s Kurdish minority...
Leftist actor Atay released after brief detention in Turkey’s Muğla province
Turkish actor Barış Atay who was detained by gendarmerie forces in the Dalyan district of Muğla on Wednesday night, was released on Thursday after...
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Pushbacks of Turkish asylum seekers from Greece to Turkey: Violation of the principle of...
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This report focuses on how illegal pushbacks by Greek authorities have devastating consequences on Turkish asylum seekers upon their return to Turkey.
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