COMMENTARY — UAE sweep exposes Turkish intelligence links to jihadists in Syria
By Abdullah Bozkurt
The government of autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, which has aided, funded and armed jihadist groups in Syria for years, is troubled...
Top court rejects pro-Kurdish-party MP’s petition to reverse decision lifting her immunity
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has rejected an application submitted by a lawmaker from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) that sought the reversal of a...
Twitter suspends more than 7,000 state-linked Turkish accounts
Twitter has suspended 7.340 fake and compromised state-linked accounts in Turkey that were targeting domestic audiences and promoting narratives favorable to the ruling Justice...
Former Turkish Air Force colonel serving life sentence recounts coup attempt and his trial
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27-years-old mother with 11-months-old son found in Ankara’s Sincan prison
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[Interview] Documenting human rights violations is very important for bringing accountability and change, ICTJ...
Executive director of the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) Fernando Travesí said in an interview with the Stockholm Center for Freedom that it...
US religious freedom commission condemns Turkish operations in N. Iraq
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Turkey’s top court rules university president violated student protester’s rights
Turkey's Constitutional Court ruled Thursday that a university president violated a student's right to protest by using a domestic violence protection law to obtain...
Airstrike blamed on Turkey kills 2 civilians in northern Iraq
Two people were killed on Friday in an airstrike on the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, an official said, accusing Turkey of being...
Turkish court confirms transfer of Khashoggi murder trial to Saudi Arabia
A Turkish court on Thursday confirmed a halt of the trial in absentia of 26 suspects linked to the killing of Saudi critic Jamal...
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