US blacklists Turkish company over violating sanctions on North Korea
The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Thursday designated a company in Turkey, SIA Falcon International Group, for...
8 Anadolu news agency reporters detained over ByLock use
Eight reporters working for Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency have been detained over their use of a smart phone application known as ByLock .
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60 officers, 73 teachers detained, 128 Kaynak personnel wanted over alleged Gülen links in...
Sixty military officers across Turkey’s 32 provinces were detained on Wednesday as part of a witch hunt operation targeting the alleged followers of the...
Five deputies of Turkish opposition parties risk being stripped of their statuses
Jailed 5 deputies of Turkish opposition parties are facing the risk of being stripped of their statuses as members of parliament in the new...
Turkish navy’s elite special ops officer was brutally tortured by his former colleagues: report
Murat Fırat, a 41-year-old officer at the Turkish navy’s elite special forces unit, Underwater Offense (Su Altı Taarruz, or SAT), an equivalent of the...
33 Swedish media groups call on Erdoğan to free jailed journalists
The editors-chief of 33 media organizations in Sweden sent an open letter to Turkey's autocratic President Tayyip Erdoğan on the anniversary of a failed...
Report: Ten prisoners in Turkey on hunger strike, their health worsening
The health of 10 women prisoners in Turkey has deteriorated since they went on hunger strike to protest against a new security measure, a...
UN expert Melzer says deeply concerned by rise in torture allegations in Turkey
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer has expressed serious concerns about the rising allegations of torture and other ill treatment in Turkish police...
Turkey’s top court orders retrial in Gülen case, citing rights violations and insufficient evidence
Turkey’s Constitutional Court (AYM) has ordered a retrial for Hasan Sarıcı, who was convicted of membership in the faith-based Gülen movement, citing violations of...
Court sentences Kurdish woman to prison based on son’s terrorist links
A Kurdish woman was sentenced to more than six years in prison for alleged links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the Artı...
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