Once shut down by Taleban, now Afghan gov’t plans to hand over Turkish schools...

Political Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan led autocratic Turkish regime’s months long pressures have given fruits and Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani has agreed to...

Study says families link some post-coup suicides in Turkey to government pressure

A new study based on interviews with families in Turkey suggests that some suicides following a post-coup purge after a 2016 failed coup are...

169 people including 5 inmates died, 339 maltreated or tortured in Turkey in April:...

Cases of human rights violations in Turkey in April included 169 deaths and 339 incidents of torture or maltreatment, with 78 of them taking...

Turkish activist says sister detained at airport upon arrival for family funeral

Former public servant and activist Acun Karadağ on Sunday said on Twitter that her sister, identified only as Sevilay, was detained at the airport...

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party members subjected to police violence during house raid

Meryem Aşkara, a member of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), claimed she was beaten and threatened by special forces police who raided her...

4 year-old girl dies, 2 quake survivors injured in tent fire in southern Turkey

Four-year-old Elif Mislina Eker died and two members of the same family who have been living in tents following devastating earthquakes in Turkey in...

Turkish gov’t to detain 417 people for transferring money abroad

Turkish prosecutors ordered the detention of 417 people in a money laundering investigation into the transfer of about 2,5 billion Turkish lira ($419 million)...

Freedom of expression is nonexistent in Turkey: German Foreign Ministry

Freedom of expression is nonexistent in Turkey, said a report published by the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Deutsche Welle (DW) Turkish reported on...

Erdoğanist journalist: US soldiers, diplomats to be executed in case of 2nd coup attempt

The US soldiers and diplomats in Turkey and elsewhere will be executed by “revenge teams” in case of a second coup attempt in the...

Turkish court files complaint against lawyer of academic who died in prison, due to...

Judges of the İstanbul 26th High Criminal Court have filed a complaint with a prosecutor against Mustafa Bal, the lawyer representing academic Tuğrul Özşengül,...
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