Pro-gov’t journalist confesses MİT abducted, illegally questioned Gülen followers

https://youtu.be/AtRHqMN1bFA Abdurrahman Şimşek, Sabah’s special editor for intelligence reporting, admitted on Friday that Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) abducted several people who have links to...

Top court finds rights violation in 3-day advertising ban imposed on Cumhuriyet daily

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that a three-day advertising ban imposed on the pro-opposition Cumhuriyet daily in 2013 was a violation of the right...

Erdoğan gov’t witch-hunt targets 118 officers in new crackdown on Gülen movement

As part of a relentless witch-hunt that has been ongoing for years against the Gülen movement, Turkish authorities on Tuesday detained 72 members of...

Veteran journalist Ilıcak reflects on prison, political misjudgments after 2016 coup attempt

Veteran Turkish journalist Nazlı Ilıcak, who was jailed on terrorism-related charges in a mass crackdown following a failed coup in Turkey in 2016, has...

Turkish police torture two university personnel for weeks in Antalya over their alleged links...

Sedat Göçen and Ahmet Gödük, two former staff members of the International Antalya University, which was closed by a government decree issued under emergency...

Family breadwinner and mother of 2 detained for ‘financially aiding terrorism’

Menekşe Turen, a mother of two who became the sole financial provider of her family after her husband's arrest, was detained on Tuesday in...

Torturers have destroyed my family, says father who lost wife, son in Aegean Sea

Hasan Aksoy, a literature teacher who was purged from his job, lost his wife and 3-year-old son in the Aegean Sea after the boat...

Turkey fines Kurdish football club, bans player and arrests teenager over solidarity with Kurds...

Turkish football authorities fined the main Kurdish club and banned one of its players after a goal celebration in which the player made a...

Turkey Purge: 1,895 people detained, 992 people jailed in past 15 days over coup...

Turkish government has continued its massive post-coup witch hunt targeting the alleged members of the Gülen movement and the citizens from Turkey’s Kurdish minority...

Woman serving sentence for conviction of Gülen links complains of insects and foul odors...

A mother of three who was arrested to serve a sentence for conviction of links to the Gülen movement told her family during a...

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