Leaked emails show list of to-be-purged generals was drafted before Turkey’s failed coup

Turkey’s General Staff in 2015 drafted a list of generals and officers who were slated to be purged from the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK)...

Erdoğan unveils human rights action plan, leading to skepticism

At a time when Turkey is the subject of harsh criticism due to gross human rights violations in the country, Turkish President Recep Tayyip...

Student arrested for tweeting support for Kobane protests says his right to education was...

Cihan Erdal, 32, a doctoral student at Canada's Carleton University who has been in prison in Turkey for five months on terrorism-related charges for...

Kurdish politician speaks of gross rights violations and torture in police detention center

İbrahim Halil Baran, chairman of the Kurdistan Party (PAKURD), has said he witnessed gross human rights violations and torture at a police detention center...

15,834 Turkish nationals sought asylum in Europe last year: EASO

A total of 15,834 Turkish nationals sought international protection in EU member states, Norway and Switzerland in 2020, according to an analysis released by...

183 members of Congress call on US government to address human rights abuses in...

A bipartisan group of 183 US lawmakers sent a letter on February 26 to Secretary of State Antony Blinken calling on the United States government to...

AKP politician under fire again for claiming Gülen-linked women conceive in conjugal rooms

Özlem Zengin, a senior official from Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), has come under fire once again due to remarks claiming that...
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19,653 Turkish citizens have fled to Greece since coup attempt in 2016: report

A total of 19,653 Turkish citizens have fled to neighboring Greece since a coup attempt on July 15, 2016, according to a report by the...

3 int’l rights groups call on CoE to take action against Turkey due to...

Three international rights groups have called on the Council of Europe to start infringement proceedings against Turkey over the country’s failure to release prominent...

Former Turkish police chief jailed after 2013 investigation given limited water in prison

Former Turkish police chief Ömer Köse, who has been imprisoned since 2014 due to his role in December 2013 graft probes that implicated high-level...

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