Interpol helped Harvard educated professor get tortured in Turkish prison
In yet another sign of the abuse of the Interpol system by Turkish government, Harvard-educated Turkish professor was extradited to Turkey to endure torture...
COMMENTARY — The case of Turkish journalist İbrahim Karayeğen under torture and abuse
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Among all the 250 journalists who are currently languishing behind bars in Turkey under abusive conditions in which torture and ill-treatment are...
Top prosecutor demands reversal of Turkey’s Istanbul Convention withdrawal
Aytaç Kurt, the chief public prosecutor of Turkey’s highest administrative court, the Council of State, has demanded the cancellation of a presidential decree that...
Former union official fired by gov’t decree complains of political pressure 6 years on
A former union official who was dismissed from her job by a government decree after a coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016...
Court bans access to report on loans from state lender to crime boss’s front...
An İstanbul court has summarily banned access to a report describing how a Turkish state lender allegedly gave 550 million lira ($17 million) in...
Turkish Embassy in Sweden spied on exiled journalist and critics, documents reveal
In a blatant violation of international conventions, Turkish diplomats and consular officers in Sweden have gathered intelligence about exiled Turkish journalist Abdullah Bozkurt and...
Turkish court rejects appeal for release for hunger-striking educator
A Turkish court in Ankara rejected an appeal for the release of Nuriye Gülmen, who has been detained for six months on a terror...
EU enlargement chief Hahn says time to reassess relationship with Turkey
Johannes Hahn, the European Union‘s (EU) commissioner for enlargement, said that he is seeking to reassess the EU‘s relationship with Turkey and hopes the...
JWF urges United Nations to form an international commission to investigate Turkey’s controversial coup...
The New York-based Journalists and Writers Foundation (JWF) in a statement released on Monday called on the United Nations to form an international commission...
Turkish journalist jailed for a fifth time
Turkish journalist Barış Pehlivan, who was ordered to return to prison by text message this month, was jailed on Tuesday for the fifth time...
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