Mother transferred to Gebze prison, baby left in care of lawyers
A breastfeeding mother was separated from her eight-month-old baby when she was transferred from an İstanbul prison to another one in Gebze, the pro-Kurdish...
Number of lawyers behind bars increases to 410 as 3 more arrested over alleged...
Arrest of 3 more lawyers by Turkish government over alleged Gülen links in Kayseri on Monday has increased the number of lawyers in jail...
HDP Co-chair Yüksekdağ sentenced to 1 year in prison on terror charges
Co-Chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Figen Yüksekdağ has been handed down a prison sentence of one year for disseminating the propaganda...
Paralyzed by ill-treatment in Sivas prison, Turkish police officer dies at 33
Kadir Eyce, a 33-year-old police officer who was jailed due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, has died several weeks after he was...
Details of brawl between Minister Kaya and Dutch police in Rotterdam emerges
Replying the questions of the Dutch Parliament's members on Monday, the Dutch government has given some new details of the brawl between Turkish Minister of...
Erdoğan refuses to listen to Kurdish citizens’ messages during a radio show
Turkey’s autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has refused to listen to the messages of Turkey's Kurdish citizens in a radio show he was attended...
PACE to observe referendum in Turkey
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) announced on Monday that it will send a 20-member delegation to Turkey to observe the...
Italian journalist del Grande detained in southern Turkey
Gabriele del Grande, an Italian journalist working for the ANSA news agency, was detained during security checks in the southern province of Hatay on...
Three consecutive life sentences sought for Zaman journalists on coup charges
An indictment prepared by an İstanbul prosecutor seeks three consecutive life sentences for 30 individuals who include journalists and executives from the now-closed Zaman...
Der Spiegel: Pro-Erdoğan Sites Take Aim at Critics in Germany
Influential German newsweekly Der Spiegel wrote that Erdoğanist websites like the Ottoman Generation and Muslim Mainstream have become gathering points for supporters of Turkey’s...
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This report focuses on how illegal pushbacks by Greek authorities have devastating consequences on Turkish asylum seekers upon their return to Turkey.
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