Purge victim dies of cancer, leaving behind jailed husband, 2 children
Turkey witnessed another tragic purge victim story this week as 31-year-old teacher Habibe Çınar died of cancer on Thursday after dismissal from her job...
TURKEY PURGE IN PAST 30 DAYS: 922 dismissed, 1,711 detained, 998 jailed over coup...
A huge cleansing of Turkey’s state and other institutions is continuing as people from all walks of life find themselves being hunted down and...
Turkish-Armenian intellectual Nişanyan says Turkish gov’t seized his money in bank account
Turkish-Armenian linguist and writer Sevan Nişanyan, who escaped from a prison in İzmir last month, has said money he kept in a bank account...
Turkey assigns a torturer to UN peacekeeping mission in Sudan
A police chief who was accused of running torture chambers for suspects in police custody in Turkey was selected to be part of UN...
Asylum applications from Turks in Germany see 102 pct rise in first 9 months
There was a 102 percent increase in the number of asylum applications filed by Turkish citizens in Germany in the first nine months of...
29 women killed by men, 14 more died under suspicious circumstances in Turkey in...
Twenty-nine women were murdered by men in Turkey in April and another 14 died under suspicious circumstances, the We Will Stop Femicide Platform reported.
Of the...
Turkish gov’t prosecutes 146 people over social media posts in a week
The Turkish government has investigated 281 social media accounts and taken legal action against 146 users over the last week (Aug.20-Aug. 27) on accusations...
Nevruz celebrated in Turkey under shadow of deadly quakes sees detention of hundreds
This year’s Nevruz celebrations, which lacked the enthusiasm of previous years due to massive earthquakes that claimed the lives of tens of thousands in...
Turkish court rules for continuation of Kurdish leader Demirtaş’s incarceration
The Ankara 19th High Criminal Court on Thursday ruled for a continuation of the detention of jailed Kurdish political leader Selahattin Demirtaş, the T24...
Erdoğan, chief justice slam ECtHR ruling on teacher convicted of Gülen links
Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and chief justice Zühtü Arslan have condemned a recent decision by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) that faulted Turkey...
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