Businessman imprisoned over Gülen links dies after his parole was delayed
Adil Somalı, a 55-year-old businessman sentenced to over six years in prison for alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, died on Saturday in...
Rights violations of Gülen movement members constitute crimes against humanity: report
A report by the Institute for Diplomacy and Economy (INSTITUDE) has revealed that the scale, scope, gravity, intensity and prevalence of human rights violations...
Most productive academics leave Turkey to work abroad: study
Academics with the highest level of productivity are leaving Turkey to continue their work abroad, with 12,000 such academics working in other countries, according...
Spying allegations against Turkish imams in Germany expand
In the wake of a recent admission by the German-based Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DİTİB), which said some of its imams had acted...
HDP deputy Paylan may lose immunity due to remarks on Armenian genocide
Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) İstanbul deputy Garo Paylan, who is of Armenian origin, faces the risk of losing his parliamentary immunity as...
COMMENTARY Erdoğan’s war on books and publishing houses
Abdullah Bozkurt
The untold part of the story about the
unprecedented attack on freedom of the press in Turkey is the toll the
crackdown, launched by the...
HDP Co-chair Demirtaş ends hunger strike after promises from prison administration
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chairperson Selahattin Demirtaş and HDP Hakkari deputy Abdullah Zeydan, who began a hunger strike in Edirne Prison on Thursday...
Turkish court rules to release HDK’s Hamzaoğlu and ESP’s Çelebi
A Turkish court in Ankara ruled for the release from jail of 11 pro-Kurdish and socialist politicians, including Prof. Dr. Onur Hamzaoğlu, co-spokesperson of the...
‘I am tired of waiting,’ says father of Yusuf Bilge Tunç, who disappeared 26...
“The authorities aren’t doing anything to find my son, and I’m tired of waiting,” said Mustafa Tunç, father of Yusuf Bilge Tunç, a former...
Overcrowding persists in Turkey’s prisons despite legal reforms, amnesty laws
An advocacy group that defends the rights of lawyers has stated that overcrowding persists in prisons in Turkey despite several recent attempts at legal reforms...
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