119 German citizens unable to return to Germany from Turkey
A total of 119 German citizens are not able to return to Germany from Turkey either due to travel bans or because they are...
Turkish board rejects doctoral dissertation approved by US university for ‘provocative rhetoric and harsh...
A doctoral dissertation that was approved by the State University of New York at Binghamton in 2019 was rejected by Turkey’s Inter-university Board (ÜAK)...
I wish I would die, pregnant inmate mistreated in prison says in voice recording
Arzu Nur Özkan, an eight-months-pregnant former teacher, said the mistreatment she has endured in prison made her wish she could die, Bold Medya reported.
According...
Prison authorities subject former HDP deputy Leyla Güven to disciplinary action for singing in...
Leyla Güven, a former deputy from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), was the subject of disciplinary action for singing in Kurdish in a prison...
Opposition MP submits parliamentary question about refugees allegedly thrown into river
Opposition MP Mustafa Yeneroğlu asked in a parliamentary question posed to the interior minister if an investigation had been launched into a claim that...
Ex-ministers should have been tried for graft, former speaker of parliament says
Presidential High Advisory Board member Cemil Çiçek has said the case files of four former Turkish ministers who were implicated bribery and corruption investigations...
I wasn’t allowed to breastfeed my twins, says woman unlawfully arrested over alleged Gülen...
“I wasn’t allowed to breastfeed my twin babies and had to throw away my breast milk during the time I was in police custody,”...
Contact visitation not allowed in Turkish prisons since beginning of pandemic despite reopening
Families of inmates have voiced protests as contact visitation in Turkish prisons has not been allowed since the beginning of the pandemic despite the...
Turkish officer ordered gendarmes to throw refugees pushed back by Greece into river, causing...
An officer in Turkey’s border city of Edirne ordered gendarmes to throw refugees pushed backed by Greece into the Evros River, causing the death...
Terrorism charges against Kurdish writer Meral Şimşek must be dropped: PEN International
All charges against Kurdish writer Meral Şimşek, who is facing up to 15 years in prison for membership in a terrorist organization, must be...
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