Turkish prosecutors issue 228 warrants, police detain 166 in one day over Gülen links
Turkish prosecutors on Tuesday issued detention warrants for 228 people countrywide, 166 of whom were detained, as part of a post-coup crackdown targeting followers...
Turkish prosecutor charges 120 people in Gezi Park investigation: report
Turkish prosecutors filed criminal charges for at least 120 people and have launched investigations into more than 600 suspects for their participation in the...
COMMENTARY – The murder of the Russian ambassador exposes Erdoğan’s jihadist friends
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Despite attempts by the Islamist government in Turkey to hush up the investigation into the assassination of Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov and...
6 human rights defenders and politicians arrested on terrorism charges
Six human rights activists and politicians who were detained along with others during police operations in the eastern Turkish province of Malatya on Tuesday...
Local court rejects Demirtaş’s appeal for release despite ECtHR ruling
The Ankara 19th High Criminal Court on Friday rejected a request for release filed by Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş which was based on a...
Wives of 8 Gülen-linked suspects detained on allegations of terrorism
The wives of eight men suspected of links to the Gülen movement were detained on Tuesday as part of an investigation into the faith-based...
Renowned Turkish human rights activist Fincancı receives Hessian Peace Prize
Şebnem Korur Fincancı, the head of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) and a doctor of forensics, on Monday accepted the Hessian Peace...
Doctor arrested for allegedly insulting President Erdoğan on social media
A medical doctor in Turkey was arrested by a court on Wednesday and sent to pretrial detention on charges of insulting the country’s president,...
Gülen movement reiterates principles, underlines transparency in statement
The faith-based network inspired by self-exiled Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen, known as Hizmet (service) or more commonly the Gülen movement, issued a statement on...
Turkey detains 585 people over Gülen links in past week
Turkish police detained 585 people between Nov. 19 and Nov. 26 as part of its post-coup crackdown targeting followers of the Gülen movement, according...
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