Journalist, human rights activist Cengiz faces life sentence despite the lack of any evidence
Turkish lawyer, journalist and human rights activist Orhan Kemal Cengiz is facing consecutive life sentence on coup charges along with 29 other Zaman daily...
Turkish gov’t cuts off funds for disabled child over father’s alleged Gülen links
The Turkish government has cut off funds granted to Rafia Nur, a 12-year-old handicapped child whose father has been arrested over alleged links to...
Pro-government mob attacks HDP office in Denizli, steals laptops, money
A pro-government crowd attacked a building in Denizli belonging to Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), officials said Wednesday.
Pictures from the scene appeared to...
Erdoğan targets West: Some haven’t forgotten the pain of losing İstanbul
Continuing to target the West during his nonstop “yes” campaign ahead of an April 16 referendum on a switch to an executive presidency, Turkey's...
Dutch minister says 20 Dutch-Turkish citizens not allowed to leave Turkey
Lilianne Ploumen, minister of foreign trade and development cooperation in the Netherlands, has said around 20 people who have both Dutch and Turkish citizenship...
COMMENTARY — How Turkey’s intel aided al-Qaeda in Syria: The case of Şen brothers
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Turkey’s notorious intelligence agency MİT has been involved in arming, funding and providing logistical support to all sorts of Jihadist groups in...
Mother transferred to Gebze prison, baby left in care of lawyers
A breastfeeding mother was separated from her eight-month-old baby when she was transferred from an İstanbul prison to another one in Gebze, the pro-Kurdish...
Number of lawyers behind bars increases to 410 as 3 more arrested over alleged...
Arrest of 3 more lawyers by Turkish government over alleged Gülen links in Kayseri on Monday has increased the number of lawyers in jail...
HDP Co-chair Yüksekdağ sentenced to 1 year in prison on terror charges
Co-Chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Figen Yüksekdağ has been handed down a prison sentence of one year for disseminating the propaganda...
Paralyzed by ill-treatment in Sivas prison, Turkish police officer dies at 33
Kadir Eyce, a 33-year-old police officer who was jailed due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, has died several weeks after he was...
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