Top lawyers’ group in Kurdish-majority Turkish city calls for reckoning with Armenian genocide
The main lawyers’ group in Kurdish-majority Diyarbakır province, which has faced prosecution over earlier April 24 statements, has called for Turkey to confront the...
Turks file 14,000 asylum applications in Germany in first 5 months of 2024
Turkish nationals have lodged a total of 13,741 first-time asylum applications and 710 repeat applications in Germany, Deutsche Welle Turkish service reported on Friday,...
Kurdish politician suffering from dementia fit to remain in prison: Turkey’s forensics council
In yet another controversial report drafted by Turkey’s Council of Forensic Medicine (ATK), it was stated that a jailed Kurdish politician who is suffering...
Young officer in pretrial detention for 4 years handcuffed to bed during cancer treatment
Ercan Dağhan, a former 2nd lieutenant who has been in pre-trial detention for more than four years on charges of coup-plotting, is fighting cancer...
Boğaziçi University academics challenge government-appointed rector’s alleged misuse of power
Five academics from the Istanbul-based Boğaziçi University have filed separate lawsuits against the Council of Higher Education (YÖK) for dismissing their requests to investigate...
Professor, jailed for 6 years, given disciplinary punishment on day of release
A prominent Turkish professor who has been behind bars for six years on politically motivated charges has been forced to serve four more months...
Officers terrify 2 Kurdish boys with police dogs during raid on their Diyarbakır home
Police officers used their dogs to terrify two Kurdish boys during a raid on their home in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır, the Mesopotamia...
Turkish gov’t issues detention warrants for 93 more educators over alleged Gülen links
The Turkish government issued detention warrants on Thursday for 93 educators as part of an investigation into the faith-based Gülen movement, the state-run Anadolu...
Turkish Airlines offers discounts to members of pro-Erdoğan lobbying group in Europe
Turkey’s national flag carrier, Turkish Airlines, is offering discounts on ticket sales to members of the Union of International Democrats (UID), the ruling Justice...
Man imprisoned on Gülen links dies a day before scheduled release
Ramazan Açıkgöz, who was convicted of alleged links to the Gülen movement, died of a heart attack Tuesday evening, one day before he was...
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