Karaman and Özçelik, Turkish nationals deported illegally by Malaysian gov’t, arrested by Ankara court
Turkish educators Turgay Karaman and İsmet Özçelik, who were turned over to Turkey by Malaysian government under questionable circumstances with a total disregard to due...
Amnesty International denies Erdoğan’s accusations about planning a follow-up coup
Amnesty International denied Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s accusation that a group of recently detained human rights defenders were plotting a follow-up to...
Main opposition CHP asks for parliamentary investigation into attack on party leader
Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has submitted a request to the parliamentary Research Commission concerning an attack on party leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu...
83 contractors in Turkey arrested for contributing to loss of buildings in earthquakes
Turkish courts have arrested 83 people as a result of a series of investigations launched into 309 people involved in the construction business for...
Swedish Supreme Court rejects Turkey’s extradition request for exiled journalist, says allegations don’t correspond...
The Swedish Supreme Court last week rejected a request from Turkey for the extradition of journalist Levent Kenez, ruling that Turkey’s allegations against Kenez...
Turkey’s Council of Forensic Medicine sends ailing Kurdish politician back to prison after 3-day...
Turkey's Council of Forensic Medicine (ATK) on Friday sent jailed Kurdish politician Aysel Tuğluk, who suffers from dementia, back to a maximum security prison...
Turkey’s gov’t seizes local convenience store over coup charges
Turkish government has seized a local/neighborhood convenience store, called Sezer Gıda in Mardin’s Kızıltepe district over alleged links to the Gülen movement and appointed...
75 civilians jailed over alleged coup involvement in four cities
At least 75 civilians have been sent by Turkish courts to jail in four major Turkish provinces over alleged links to the Gülen movement, which...
Turkish main opposition figure faces over 4 years in prison for allegedly insulting Erdoğan
A Turkish court has accepted the indictment of a prominent main opposition figure, seeking up to four years, eight months in prison over a...
26 women killed by men, 23 died under suspicious circumstances in Turkey in April
Twenty-six women were murdered by men in Turkey in April, while another 23 died under suspicious circumstances, the We Will Stop Femicide Platform said...
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