Turkish gov’t transfers detained woman, newborn baby to prison 1,291 km away from home

Detained in the southern province of Isparta as part of a post-coup witch hunt campaign targeting the alleged members of the Gülen movement, a...

Boğaziçi University student commits suicide as dismissed father under arrest for 9 months

21-year-old university student Tuğçe Ölçer died after jumping off a balcony as she was depressed in the face of her father’s imprisonment, according to...

Court seeks revocation of Turkish journalist Öğütçü’s citizenship

A high criminal court in the southern province of Adana on Saturday applied to Turkey’s Justice Ministry demanding revocation of the citizenship of journalist...

Turkish court sentences 10 people to 11 months in jail for insulting Erdoğan

Ten people, including three members of the Turkish Communist Party (TKP), were sentenced to 11 months, 20 days in prison for allegedly insulting Turkey's...

Pro-gov’t columnist suggests setting Turkey’s Silivri Prison ablaze to kill inmates from Gülen movement

https://youtu.be/Faj26si8tDY Fatih Tezcan, a pro-government public speaker and columnist, said in a video message posted on social media on Friday that people should gather in...

CoE’s Muiznieks reacts over arrest of Kılıç, calls on Turkey to revert to the...

Nils Muiznieks, the Council of Europe’s (CoE) commissioner for human rights, has issued a strong statement on the arrest of Taner Kılıç, the chair...

Turkish teacher under UN protection detained in Azerbaijan for deportation to Turkey, wife says

https://youtu.be/jDu5rWqE0IA Taci Şentürk, a Turkish teacher who was working in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku, was taken by police to an unknown place after UN...

CHP leader Kılıçdaroğlu calls on OSCE to examine heavy government pressure on Turkish media

Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has urged the Assembly of Parliamentarians of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in...

Lawyer Taner Kılıç, Amnesty International’s Turkey chair, arrested

Turkish lawyer Taner Kılıç, a human rights defender and Amnesty International's Turkey chair, was arrested by an İzmir court over alleged links to the...

Pro-gov’t armed group in Turkey says government supports people bearing arms

https://youtu.be/382CpqIaNY0 While posing with a gun during an interview, the leader of an armed pro-government group said the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government...
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