Police officer forced to work in construction after post-coup purge dies in occupational accident
Yurdal Gökçe, 41, a former police officer who was dismissed by an emergency decree after a coup attempt in Turkey in July 2016, died...
Detention warrants issued for 140 in separate operations over Gülen links
Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 140 people including former police academy students, military cadets and foreign ministry personnel over alleged links to...
ByLock data tool of ‘malicious prosecution,’ not evidence: report
Data acquired from the ByLock smartphone application that Turkish courts accept as evidence of terrorist activity are not legal or admissible pieces of evidence...
Opposition politician arrested for alleged espionage
Turkish defense analyst and Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA) politician Metin Gürcan has been jailed on charges of “political and military espionage,” Agence France-Presse...
24,253 officers dismissed from Turkish military in post-coup purge
A total of 24,253 military members have been dismissed from the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) in a post-coup purge that started after an abortive...
Civil servant abducted by Turkish intelligence forced to testify against opposition deputies while in...
Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a deputy from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), said during budget talks on Friday that a man who was abducted and...
Detained DEVA founder interrogated about articles, phone calls with foreign journalists
Police questioned Metin Gürcan, a founding member of the opposition Democracy and Progress Party (DEVA), about columns he authored and phone calls with with...
Kurdish leader Demirtaş’s books displayed among criminal ‘evidence’ seized in police raid
Three books authored by Kurdish leader Selahattin Demirtaş -- "Leylan," "Devran" and "Seher" -- were displayed among criminal “evidence” seized in a police raid...
Turkish teacher dismissed after coup attempt dies by suicide
Recep Yaya, 35, a former teacher summarily dismissed from his job by an emergency decree after a coup attempt in July 2016, took his...
Former Kurdish deputy given 5 more years for terrorist propaganda
Leyla Güven, a Kurdish politician who was ousted from the Turkish Parliament in June 2020, has been handed down a prison sentence of five...
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