Amnesty International: Time for Western governments to tell Turkey ‘red lines crossed’
Amnesty International (AI) Director of Europe and Central Asia John Dalhuisen urged British and Western governments to end their silence over Turkey’s slide into...
Deputy PM: 111,240 civil servants dismissed since coup attempt
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş has announced that 111,240 civil servants have been dismissed from their jobs since a controversial coup attempt on...
Deputy PM says 966 companies, 4,888 assets seized from Gülen affiliated people
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş said on Monday that the government has seized 966 companies from people allegedly linked to the Gülen movement...
Coup suspects to appear in courts in special uniforms, Turkish Deputy PM says
Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmuş said on Monday that Justice Ministry officials are working to design a special uniform for suspects who are...
ECtHR to give priority to cases of jailed HDP deputies in Turkey
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) will give priority to applications for the cases of 11 pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputies who...
Dozens of people detained or arrested over alleged links to Gülen movement on Monday
Police forces detained dozens of people including a goalkeeper, military officers, public servants and Turkish courts arrested a deputy governor and gave prison sentences...
PEN: Never recorded so many writers in prison in one country at one time
PEN International, a worldwide association of writers, on Monday called on the Turkish government to stop abusing a state of emergency in force in...
ISI voices concern over Turkish government’s arbitrary deprivation of nationality of its citizens
The Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI) has released a policy paper to raise its grave concern over recent steps taken by the Turkish government towards...
1,800-year-old church falling into disrepair due to delayed restoration
An 1,800-year-old Orthodox church in Turkey’s Muğla province is poised to fall into ruin due to its delayed restoration and neglect.
The Ministry of Culture...
Syriac association chair: I fear we will be forced to convert to Islam under...
Yuhanna Aktaş, chairperson of the Mardin Syriac Unity Association, which was closed down in 2015, has said with irony that he is afraid Syriacs...
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