Turkey’s Kılıçdaroğlu asks who ordered intelligence, army heads not to testify to coup commission
Addressing Parliament during a special session to commemorate the first anniversary of a controversial coup attempt on July 15, 2016, Turkey's main opposition Republican...
33 Swedish media groups call on Erdoğan to free jailed journalists
The editors-chief of 33 media organizations in Sweden sent an open letter to Turkey's autocratic President Tayyip Erdoğan on the anniversary of a failed...
Controversial July 15 coup attempt and ‘Jihad’ to be taught as a lesson in...
Turkey’s Education Minister İsmet Yilmaz has announced that the controversial July 15, 2016 coup attempt is going to be part of the new curriculum...
Report shows chronology of purge in Turkey after a controversial coup attempt in 2016
A report by Turkey Purge on Saturday showed that more than 146,000 people lost their jobs, some 169,013 faced legal proceedings that left over...
Turkey’s Erdoğan calls opposition leader ‘coward,’ promises to cut off traitors’ heads
Enraged at the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu calling the July 15, 2016 coup attempt a “controlled coup” Turkey's autocratic...
Another woman who just gave birth to be detained by police in Turkey
A group of police officers have been waiting outside the private Hizmet Hospital in İstanbul’s Bahçelievler district in order to detain a woman who...
7,348 more dismissed from Turkey’s state under draconian new govenment decree
A total of 7,348 people, including 302 academics, have been dismissed from state institutions by a new government decree, known as a KHK, that...
Turkish academic Koray Çalışkan put under house arrest
Associate Professor Koray Çalışkan, who was detained on July 10 as part of an investigation targeting 72 people including 20 university academics, has been...
Turkish Armenian intellectual escapes from prison: The bird has flown
Sevan Nişanyan, a Turkish intellectual of Armenian origin who was imprisoned on Dec. 2, 2014 for “construction infractions,” announced in a tweet on Friday...
UN human rights specialists call on Turkey to release rights defenders
A group of United Nations experts on Friday called on the Turkish government to immediately release nine human rights defenders and two foreign trainers...
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