Turkish citizen detained for disturbing peace after filing complaint against Erdoğan

A man who filed charges against Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for “discriminating against part of society” was detained shortly afterwards on charges...

American media likens questioning of Turkish police Korkmaz in New York court to McCarthyism

American media has likened the caustic questioning of Hüseyin Korkmaz, the former deputy head of the İstanbul Police Financial Crime Department, by a defense attorney...

Mother of purge-victim beaten by Turkish police for protesting son’s dismissal

Kezban Şaçılık, the septuagenarian mother of the purge-victim Turkish civil servant Veli Şaçılık, was reportedly beaten by a group of Turkish police officers for publicly protesting his...

Turkish gov’t detains and sentences dozens of people over alleged links to Gülen movement

As part of an ongoing witch-hunt targeting the alleged members of the Gülen movement, Turkish government has detained and sentenced dozens of people on...

Turkish gov’t detains Ugandan teacher in Diyarbakır on suspicion of Gülen links

Vanitho Ivan Kerawiya, a Ugandan national who until recently was working as a teacher at the Simya private college in Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish province...

Erdoğan’s long arm reaches to Norway, targeting critics of Turkish government

Turkey has escalated its witch hunt persecution on critics to Norway using government institutions, quasi-official parallel structures and affiliated NGOs, a report released by Stockholm...

Report on violation of women prisoners’ rights: Turkish jails turned into ‘prisoners camp’

A report, released by the Free Women’s Movement (TJA), has stated that the society has been put under suppression through the  state of emergency (OHAL)...

An Erdoğanist thug sentenced for threatening a sympathizer of Gülen movement in the Netherlands

Oğuzhan Erkuş, a 19-year-old supporter of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), who threatened to kill Mehmet Demirözcan (32), a sympathizer of the Gülen...

Abducted teacher’s wife to Afghan gov’t: Where are you? Are you asleep?

Farzana Wardak, the wife of Masood Wardak who is the only Afghan teacher among five people who were abducted by Afghan intelligence service National Directorate...

Turkish gov’t tells ECtHR that HDP deputies’ arrests ‘necessary, appropriate’

In its defence submitted to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) regarding the arrest of Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chairs Selahettin...

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