Turkish prosecutor demands 7,5 years for 32 academics for signing peace petition
Thirty-two Turkish academics who signed a peace petition were called before a criminal court on Friday, where the prosecutor demanded the court sentence them...
Turkey among top abusers of INTERPOL’s notice system, UK parliament report says
Turkey is among the most prolific abusers of INTERPOL’s notice system, a UK parliamentary report has found, warning that authoritarian regimes are increasingly exploiting...
Police detain 24 in southern Turkey for attending commemoration ceremony for leftist figures
Turkish police on Thursday detained 24 people for attending a commemoration ceremony in May for three left-wing, revolutionary students who were executed in 1972,...
German police detain suspected hitman with list of Gülen followers: Der Spiegel
German police on Sept. 17 raided a hotel in Düsseldorf and detained a 40-year-old Turkish man with a gas pistol and a large amount...
Turkish gov’t detains 16 Gazi University academics over alleged links to Gülen movement
The Turkish government detained 16 academics in Ankara on Thursday as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt targeting alleged members of the Gülen...
Nearly 12 million in Turkey live in extreme poverty, ministry data shows
More than 14 million people in Turkey rely on regular social assistance to survive, and nearly 12 million of them live in extreme poverty,...
German Bar calls on Turkey’s top court to consider ECtHR ruling in its decisions
While Turkey’s opposition and legal community have for the most part kept silent about a recent European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) decision concerning...
Pro-Kurdish party calls for state apology, payment of damages to post-coup purge victims
Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has said the Turkish state should offer an official apology to the victims of a post-coup purge that...
Turkish gov’t conducts 38,725 operations against alleged members of Gülen movement in a year
The Turkish government conducted a total of 38,725 operations in the space of one year against alleged members of the Gülen movement as part...
Civil servant unions, opposition accuse Erdoğan gov’t of forcing millions into poverty with new...
Public sector unions and the main opposition party in Turkey have accused the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of condemning millions to poverty...
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