Turkey’s former PM Davutoğlu says AKP rapidly weakening own values
Former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu and Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy Ahmet Davutoğlu has said his party is quickly weakening its own values...
Turkey’s Kılıçdaroğlu: Pilot who informed of coup beforehand recruited by MİT to prevent him...
Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu claimed on Tuesday that Maj. O.K., a pilot who informed Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization...
Two journalists from Turkey’s Evrensel daily given suspended sentences over Art. 301
The Evrensel daily’s managing editor Çağrı Sarı and former license owner Arif Koşar have been given suspended five-month sentences on charges related to Article...
Detained woman covers 50 km twice a day to feed one-year old baby in...
Şule Akkaya, a primary school teacher who was detained on June 1, 2017 as part of an investigation into the Gülen group, reportedly covers...
14 teachers detained, detention warrants issued for 47 in Turkey over alleged Gülen links
The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued detention warrants for 30 people working at Turkey's Education Ministry and for 17 others at the...
Local NGOs urge Georgian gov’t to avoid returning Turkish teacher back home
Eight nongovernmental organizations have called on the Georgian government to refrain from returning a detained Turkish teacher Mustafa Emre Çabuk back home where “he...
Mass torture in Turkey under the spell of nationalism and religious zealotry
The torture, ill-treatment, abusive, inhuman and degrading treatment of people who are deprived of their liberties in Turkey’s detention centers and prisons have become...
Teacher Sökmen sent to jail in Turkey after forced return from Myanmar
Muhammet Furkan Sökmen, a Turkish teacher who was forcibly and illegaly returned to Turkey from Maynmar despite his cries for help on social media,...
173 women killed in violence against women in 5 months in Turkey
According to a report released by a Turkish women’s rights activist organization Monday, a total of 173 women were killed by men in the...
Ankara court orders arrest of former Deputy PM Arınç’s son-in-law over alleged Gülen links
An Ankara court on Monday ordered the arrest of academic Ekrem Yeter, the former Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç's son-in-law after he was detained...
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