Pro-Kurdish mayor, 2 politicians in police custody hospitalized for food poisoning: report
Ayhan Bilgen, co-mayor of the eastern city of Kars from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), and two other HDP politicians were hospitalized for...
Turkish authorities should investigate allegations of villagers thrown from helicopter: Amnesty International
Turkish authorities should investigate claims of the torture and ill-treatment of two villagers, Osman Şiban (50) and Servet Turgut (55), who were allegedly thrown...
Migrants claim they were pushed back by Greek authorities
A group of migrants claim they were pushed back by Greek authorities in the Aegean Sea on September 12 and picked up by a...
Pro-opposition TV channel suspended for 5 days: report
Halk TV, one of the few television stations in Turkey that is critical of the government, has been slapped with a five-day broadcasting ban...
Ankara orders detention of 82 Kurdish politicians over protests against alleged Turkish support for...
The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has ordered the detention of 82 prominent pro-Kurdish politicians, with some of them detained as of Friday morning...
Exiled Turkish journalist attacked in Stockholm suburb
Swedish-based Turkish journalist Abdullah Bozkurt was attacked yesterday near his home in Stockholm, Nordic Monitor reported.
Bozkurt and his team of journalists in Sweden run the...
76-year-old man convicted for speaking Kurdish dies in prison
Ali Boçnak (76), who was detained in 2009 for conducting a religious ceremony in his mother tongue of Kurdish, has passed away in prison,...
39 lawyers charged with terrorism for reporting torture in Turkish prisons
Thirty-nine lawyers detained on September 11 have been charged with terrorism for reporting the torture their clients were subjected to in prison, according to...
Imprisoned teacher declared brain dead a week after collapsing in cell
Cengiz Karakurt (41), a former teacher arrested for alleged membership in the Gülen movement, was declared brain dead on Wednesday after having passed out...
Mass detention warrant issued for Turkish lawyers, systematically targeted because of their work
The İzmir Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Tuesday ordered the detention of 66 lawyers as part of what appears to be a campaign against...
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