Video shows African refugees being tortured by Turkish gang at Greek border
A group of African refugees were tortured at the Turkish-Greek border by a Turkish-speaking gang, according to video footage shared by an İstanbul-based refugee...
7 university students among 35 detained over alleged Gülen links
Thirty-five people, including seven university students, were detained on Tuesday on warrants issued by Turkish prosecutors for alleged links to the Gülen movement, a...
PKK chieftain claims 20 Turkish officials including 2 high ranking MİT agents in their...
Mustafa Karasu, the Executive Committee Member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has claimed that the PKK has imprisoned 20 Turkish officials including 2...
Turkish gov’t detains 505 people over links to Gülen movement in past week
The Turkish government detained a total of 505 people last week (Oct. 29-Nov. 5) as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt targeting alleged...
Turks in Germany report heckling from Erdoğan supporters
Supporters of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Germany have been trying to intimidate voters ahead of the country’s crunch election, Agence France-Presse reported,...
Turkey detains 13 in probe targeting opposition-held Ankara Municipality
Thirteen people, including current and former officials of the Ankara Metropolitan Municipality, were detained Tuesday in a corruption investigation into spending on concerts organized...
Police disperse Ankara train station bombing mourners, 22 detained
Turkish police on Sunday dispersed people who had gathered in Ankara’s Ulus district to commemorate the victims of a 2015 terrorist attack near the...
Diyanet sanctions imam for refusing to take congregation to Erdoğan rally
Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) has reassigned and temporarily halted any possibility of promotion or pay increase for an imam for refusing to...
Woman in pretrial detention with newborn baby released on parole
Şeyma Tekin, a woman jailed pending trial who gave birth in January at a hospital in Erzurum and had to return to prison with...
Turkish police officer, who saved Erdoğan on night of coup, arrested over links to...
A police officer, who helped save Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s life on the night of the coup as part of a three-person...
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