Turkish court upholds rights leader’s life sentence
A Turkish appellate court on Wednesday upheld the conviction of a leading critic of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, whose incarceration has injected tension into...
Prominent Turkish doctor faces fresh terrorism charges as part of new investigation
The head of a leading doctors union who was arrested in October on terrorism-related charges is facing a new investigation as a part of...
[Interview] Dr. Dana Moss calls on the UN to appoint a special rapporteur on...
Dr. Dana Moss, who developed the term ’’transnational repression,” in an interview with the Stockholm Center for Freedom called on the United Nations to...
Mother of child suffering from bone cancer serving sentence on conviction of Gülen links
Gülten Sayın, the mother of 6-year-old Yusuf Kerim Sayın, who is suffering from a type of bone cancer, was arrested on December 16 to...
Barber in France stabbed by Turkish customer over Kurdish music
A Kurdish barber named Zîkrî Elî Avşîn, 27, who lives in Roubaix, France, was seriously injured when a Turkish customer stabbed him with a...
‘Democracy vigil’ launched in support of İstanbul mayor facing political ban, prison sentence
A group of people launched a “democracy vigil” in İstanbul in support of the city’s popular mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu, who was recently handed down...
Teacher forced to work as a delivery man dies by suicide in İzmir
Social studies teacher Hasan Cihan Aslan, 26, who had to work as a delivery man for several years since he was unable to find...
Turkey arrests pro-Kurdish party co-chair, provincial head on terrorism charges
A Turkish court has ruled for the arrest of the co-chair and the Diyarbakır provincial co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP) on...
Turkish prosecutor restricts access to judicial file of arrested documentary filmmaker
Access to the judicial file of documentary filmmaker and journalist Sibel Tekin, who was arrested on December 18 in Ankara on charges of terrorism,...
Man captured by MİT abroad over terrorist links claims he was tortured in Turkey...
A man who was reported to have been captured abroad due to alleged terrorist links and brought to Turkey in July claimed that he...
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