Pro-Kurdish HDP urges gov’t to clarify death of Murat Araç in Turkish police custody
Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Ayşe Acar Başaran on Monday called on the government to clarify questions concerning the death of Murat...
Turkey issues detention warrants for 295 active duty military officers over alleged Gülen links
Turkish authorities have ordered the detention of 304 people, including 295 active duty military officers, in what is considered the largest operation against members...
Turkish gov’t to liquidate 6 companies seized from businessman over Gülen links
Six subsidiaries of Dumankaya Holding, which was seized by the Turkish government under a state of emergency declared in the aftermath of a controversial...
Turkey’s media watchdog investigates Prime Video due to ‘indecent content’
Turkey’s media watchdog, the Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK), has launched an investigation into an animated series streaming on Amazon Prime Video due...
Mother of 3 arrested by Turkish police while fleeing to Greece
A mother of three was arrested by Turkish police on September 17 as she was trying to flee to Greece to seek asylum, the...
Scores of women tell of unlawful strip-searches in Turkey’s prisons after AKP deputy’s denial:...
A number of women subjected to unlawful strip-searches in Turkey’s prisons have come forward to talk about their experiences in videos shared on social...
COMMENTARY — Erdoğan and his cronies seize the wealth of critics in Turkey
By Abdullah Bozkurt
The unlawful seizure of assets of companies worth tens of billions of dollars and the confiscation of the wealth of critics of...
Police detain 5 more people for playing Kurdish songs in southeastern Turkey
Turkish police have detained five people for playing Kurdish-language songs at a wedding in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır, the Bold news website reported...
Opposition HDP calls for parliamentary inquiry commission for rights violations in prisons
Co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Pervin Buldan has called on the Turkish parliament to establish a commission of inquiry for rights...
Woman jailed for husband’s role in corruption operations involving Erdoğan denied medical treatment
Sümeyya Aksoy, 43, the wife of a police chief jailed for her husband’s role in corruption and bribery operations back in 2013 that implicated...
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