Turkish businessman with ties to Gülen movement deported from Algeria
N.N.K., a Turkish businessman with alleged ties to the Gülen movement living in Algeria, was deported to Turkey following a joint effort on the...
Dismissed civil servant asked to repay Ph.D. scholarship
S.S., a former judge in training who was summarily fired from his position with an emergency decree in 2017, was asked in July by...
Iranian anti-hijab activist held in repatriation center in Turkey faces risk of deportation
Nasibe Shemsai, 36, an Iranian activist known for protesting the mandatory hijab law in Iran who fled to Turkey, is now in a repatriation...
ECtHR says Turkey violated rights of journalist Ahmet Şık
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Turkey violated the right to liberty and security as well as the right to...
Prosecutor demands 26 years for 3 minors allegedly tortured under custody
A public prosecutor demanded 26 years of imprisonment for three minors who were arrested in the eastern province of Van in 2019 on charges...
Kurdish author Nezir Çakan arrested for protesting ISIS siege of Kobane
Nezir Çakan, a member of PEN International and president of the Kurdish Literary Association, has been arrested as part of an investigation into the...
Former police officer not released from prison until too late succumbs to cancer
Ümit Gökhasan, a former police superintendent who was not released from prison until his cancer had spread to other parts of his body, has...
Journalist Mehmet Baransu sentenced to 17 years for publishing leaked gov’t documents
An İstanbul court on Monday sentenced jailed investigative journalist Mehmet Baransu, a former correspondent for the now-defunct Taraf newspaper, to 17 years, one month...
Turkish diplomats in North Macedonia spied on residents in breach of Vienna conventions: report
Turkish government documents obtained by Nordic Monitor have confirmed that critics of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan were spied on by Turkish diplomats in Skopje...
Air force cadet sentenced to life in prison succumbs to bone cancer: report
A former air force cadet sentenced to life in prison on coup charges succumbed to bone cancer on Friday in a hospital in Eskişehir,...
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Pushbacks of Turkish asylum seekers from Greece to Turkey: Violation of the principle of...
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