About 100 Turkish-Dutch citizens barred from leaving Turkey
About 100 Dutch citizens have reportedly been blocked from leaving Turkey after criticizing the country’s autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Those affected are of Turkish descent...
25 more face detention in expanding probe targeting İstanbul Municipality
Turkish prosecutors have launched another wave of operations targeting the opposition-run İstanbul Municipality, issuing detention warrants for 25 people as part of an ongoing...
COMMENTARY — Turkey becomes a magnet for Islamist extremists under Erdoğan’s rule
By Abdullah Bozkurt
As the project of dismantling Turkey’s republican institutions including the military and judiciary is nearing an end, the regime of President Recep...
Turkish prosecutor issues detention warrant for pro-Kurdish HDP Co-chairperson Kemalbay
Turkish prosecutors on Friday issued a detention warrant for Serpil Kemalbay, co-chairperson of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Peoples’ Party (HDP), just two days before a...
HRW to Turkey: Investigate abductions, disappearances in Ankara
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday called on Turkish Justice Minister Abdülhamit Gül in a letter to investigate the abductions and disappearances, which may have been...
486 people detained over Gülen links in past week
Turkish police detained 486 people between Nov. 12 and Nov. 19 as part of its post-coup crackdown targeting followers of the Gülen movement, according...
Opposition leader urges Turkey to address widespread rights abuses before peace talks with PKK
Mahmut Arıkan, leader of the Islamist opposition Felicity Party (SP), said Wednesday Turkey should resolve widespread rights violations before debating potential visits to jailed...
Turkish bank executive Atilla denies links with Zarrab in first interrogation in US court
Lawyers of Mehmet Hakan Atilla, the deputy general manager at Turkish state-owned Halkbank, who is on trial in a New York court case that...
Immense need of sustainable response to health, psychological needs in Turkey, Syria: IFRC
There is an urgent need of a sustainable short and long-term response to the health, mental health and psychosocial needs in Turkey and Syria...
Turkish gov’t refuses to release inmates despite detection of coronavirus in overcrowded prisons
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Islamist government has rejected calls from human rights organizations to release inmates from two overcrowded prisons despite detection in those...
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