NASA scientist arrested in Turkey over $1 bill: I spent 23 hours a day...
Turkish-American NASA scientist Serkan Gölge, 40, who returned with his family to the United States last month after nearly four years of imprisonment and...
Turkey weaponised Interpol system to persecute critics, new study exposes
The Turkish government’s blatant abuse of the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) to persecute, harass and intimidate critics and opponents is much worse than...
Detention warrants issued for 98 across 18 provinces over ByLock use
The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued detention warrants for a total of 98 people across 18 provinces on the grounds that they...
Concerns over mental health of police officers rise as 4 die by suicide in...
Four police officers have died by suicide so far this year, raising concerns over the mental well-being of members of the Turkish police force,...
Journalist arrested for reporting on MİT informing Erdoğan of corruption in judiciary
Tolga Şardan, a journalist with the T24 news website who was detained earlier on Wednesday following a search of his residence over an article that revealed...
Imprisoned former Istanbul district mayor ‘dying a slow death from cancer,’ says lawyer
Şükrü Genç, the imprisoned former mayor of Istanbul's Sarıyer district, is suffering from colon cancer and is "slowly dying in prison," his lawyer, Hüseyin Cengiz, said...
6 Turkish police officers indicted for torturing detainees
İstanbul prosecutors have indicted six police officers on charges of torturing three people in their custody in 2022, the T24 news website reported.
The detainees...
75 detained over alleged Gülen links in a week
Turkish government has detained of a total of 75 suspects in a week due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, according to reports...
EU and NATO call on Turkey to be calm in row with the Netherlands
The European Union (EU) and NATO have called on Turkey and the Netherlands to be calm in the wake of the eruption of a...
OSCE: Legal charges by Turkey against Turkish Cypriot journalists should be dropped
Harlem Désir, representative on freedom of the media for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), expressed his concern over recent judicial...
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