16 people including stallholder woman detained in Aksaray over alleged ByLock use
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Turkish police teams on Tuesday detained 16 people, including a stallholder woman in an Aksaray-based coup probe on accusations that they use a smart...
Turkey dismissed 53 deputy and district governors as part of post-coup purge
The Turkish Interior Ministry in August dismissed 53 deputy governors and district governors due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, part of a...
Turkey’s child abuse crisis deepens after 2-year-old found to be sexually assaulted
A 2-year-old child hospitalized in Tekirdağ with a suspected brain hemorrhage has been confirmed to have been sexually abused, raising concerns over the alarming...
Erdoğan supporters discuss on Clubhouse how to exterminate political prisoners
Audio records of a chatroom on social media app Clubhouse revealed a conversation among supporters of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on how to...
Sweden can’t call itself a democratic nation if it fulfils Turkey’s demand to hand...
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Turkish government closes four foreign humanitarian organizations in Turkey
Turkish government has ended the activities of four foreign humanitarian organizations operating in Turkey, American Mercy Corps, the Italian-based Coordination of the Organizations for...
Turkish hunger strikers held in ‘severe confinement’ conditions, say lawyers
Lawyers for hunger striker teachers Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça have said the jailed educators, who are on the 155th day of hunger strike,...
14 Kurdish politicians, activists referred to court for arrest in Diyarbakır
Of the 18 Kurdish politicians and activists detained in a police operation in the southeastern Turkish province of Diyarbakır on Friday, 14 of them...
Reports: Saudi journalist Khashoggi decapitated in Turkey after fingers cut off
Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was decapitated on Oct. 2 inside Saudi Arabia's consulate in İstanbul after torture during which his fingers were cut off,...
Members of Turkey’s main opposition party face up to 15 years in prison, political...
A Turkish court has accepted an indictment seeking prison terms up to 15 years and political bans for 26 members of the main opposition...
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