Purged Turkish officer found dead in Switzerland, suicide suspected
Yaşar Akkoyun, a former special forces officer who was expelled from the Turkish military by an emergency decree, was found dead in a lake...
Opposition politician accused of espionage released pending trial
Metin Gürcan, a defense analyst and Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA) politician who was accused of “political and military espionage,” was released pending trial...
Turkish gov’t detains 27 people over their alleged links to Gülen movement
The Turkish government on Saturday detained 27 people, including 12 military officers on active duty, across Turkey as part of its massive post-coup witch...
Evrensel’s Karataş, Sözcü’s Olgun released from jail by Turkish courts
Yusuf Karataş, a columnist of Evrensel daily newspaper, has been released from the jail by Diyarbakır 9th High Criminal Court on Friday.
Columnist Yusuf Karataş had...
Report: German intelligence says Manchester bomber flew from Turkey before attack
Salman Abedi, the 22-year-old suicide bomber who killed 22 in the Manchester terrorist attack, travelled to Britain from Turkey just four days before the...
Court gives suspended sentence to poet Odabaşı for insulting Erdoğan
Poet and author Yılmaz Odabaşı on Wednesday received a suspended jail sentence of one year, eight months for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...
OSCE/ODIHR final report on Turkey’s referendum recommends reviewing legal framework to secure fundamental rights...
The final report by the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) on Turkey’s April 16, 2017 constitutional referendum, published on Thursday,...
Abducted teacher says he does not have access to proper healthcare in prison
Zabit Kişi, a former teacher who was abducted from Kazakhstan by Turkish intelligence agency MİT, said in a letter to Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP)...
Human Rights Watch says Turkey’s authoritarian order consolidated in 2023
The May 2023 re-election of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the victory of his Justice and Development Party (AKP) in parliamentary elections consolidated an authoritarian...
ECtHR rules rights violated in first purge case from Turkey: report
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has said the rights of a civil servant who was fired in a purge carried out by...
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