Veteran Turkish journalist Hasan Cemal sentenced over documenting PKK withdrawal
Veteran Turkish journalist Hasan Cemal has been given a suspended sentence of three months, 22 days by an appeals court for a series of...
Pompeo meets with families of US mission employees jailed by Turkish gov’t
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday met with the families of three Turkish employees of the US mission in Turkey who were detained...
Turkish teachers, doctor sentenced for years of prison term over alleged links with Gülen...
Numbers of teachers and a doctor have been sentenced for years of prison terms by Turkish courts over their alleged links with the Gülen...
Detained teacher severely tortured, his wife harrassed by Turkish police
Once an inspiring educator to his pupils, a Bartın teacher was detained with her hands cuffed behind back as a perceived enemy of the...
US Senate defense bill would bar Turkey from buying F-35 jets due to row...
A US Senate committee passed its version of a $716 billion defense policy bill on Thursday, including a measure to prevent Turkey from purchasing...
Inmate in Turkish prison attempts suicide twice due to mistreatment
Veysel Işık, 30, an inmate in Burhaniye Prison in Turkey's northwestern Balıkesir province, has attempted suicide twice since a nervous breakdown that was allegedly...
Turkey continues arresting Uyghurs during Chinese foreign minister’s official visit to Ankara
The Turkish government is continuing to arrest members of Uyghur diaspora in the country during the official visit of Chinese Foreign Affairs Minister Wang...
Demirtaş sentenced to prison for insulting Turkish president
A court on Monday sentenced Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş to three years, six months in prison for insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, his...
Educator İnandı tortured and his arm broken in 3 places, wife says
Orhan İnandı, a Turkish-Kyrgyz educator rendered from Kyrgyzstan by Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT), was tortured and his right arm broken in three places by Turkish...
YÖK responds to Erdoğan’s ‘request’ to eliminate assistant professorship status
Turkey’s Higher Education Board (YÖK) Chairman Yekta Saraç has said they started working on removal of the position of assistant professor after Turkey's autocratic...
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