Two purged public officials and their families detained on Greek border
Turkish gendarmes have detained two purged public officials and their families’ members close to the Greek border over alleged links to Gülen movement on...
Pro-gov’t hitman calls for arrest of Hürriyet owner, journalist due to report on army
Cem Küçük, a staunchly pro-government journalist known for his social media attacks on government critics, has called on prosecutors to take legal action against...
Turkey’s purge victims hold protest in front of UN’s İstanbul Office
Victims of a massive government purge that took place in Turkey in the aftermath of a failed coup in July 2016 held a demonstration...
PACE says particularly concerned on media situation in Turkey
Stockholm (Jan.25, 2017) - Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has expressed its concern at the many cases of serious threats to...
UN Human Rights Council on death of Ebru Timtik : No one should have...
Special rapporteurs from the UN Human Rights Council in a statement issued on Wednesday condemned the preventable death of lawyer Ebru Timtik after a...
70 pct of 4,800 minors jailed in Turkey have not yet been sentenced
Approximately 4,800 minors in Turkey aged 12 to 18 are being held in juvenile detention facilities, of which some 70 percent have not been...
Erdoğan, far-right ally visit earthquake zone amid criticism
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his far-right ally, Devlet Bahçeli, visited one of the provinces hit by two powerful earthquakes earlier this month...
Suspected remains of unsolved murder victims found in SE Turkey: report
Human remains that might belong to dozens of victims of unsolved murders in Turkey’s Southeast in the 1990s have been found in a cave...
Far-right party members to replace pro-Kurdish party in monitoring Turkey’s overseas voting
Turkey’s top election authority has decided that members from the far-right Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) will replace representatives from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party...
Int’l human rights bodies slam abduction of 6 Turkish nationals in Kosovo
International human rights organisations have slammed the abduction of six Turkish nationals in Kosovo and their illegal removal to Turkey, characterizing the scandal as a...
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