Turkish gov’t appoints trustee to anti-government Furkan Foundation
An Adana court on Friday appointed a trustee to the Furkan Foundation, whose 25 members including President Alparslan Kuytul, leader of a religious group...
Letter campaign launched for women, mothers with babies jailed in Turkey
An initiative called "Set Them Free" has launched a letter campaign to show solidarity with women in jail and mothers who are incarcerated with...
Report: 80 lawyers convicted, 572 lawyers jailed, 1,506 lawyers prosecuted by Turkish gov’t since...
Turkish government has prosecuted at least 1,506 lawyers, jailed 572 of them and sentenced at least 80 lawyers to long period of imprisonment as...
Civilians suffer due to clashes between Turkish military and Syrian Kurdish militants over Afrin
In Reyhanlı district, two civilians, 68-year-old Rıfat Sinirli and Ahmet Şanverdi were killed and 16 others were injured after three rockets hit the industrial...
Turkish gov’s goes on silencing critical people, censoring media, targeting peace defending
Turkish government's fight against free speech and peace defenders has continued full gear as new detentions come over social media content criticising Turkish military...
Survey: Number of Turks, who think Turkish democracy weakened, soars 8 pct
Findings from a Turkish university survey announced on Wednesday revealed that the number of Turkish citizens who say "Turkey is a democratic country," has plummeted...
Companies to be banned from public tenders in Turkey based on secret MİT reports
An amendment made to Turkey’s Public Tender Law based on a government decree (KHK) that went into effect last November bans individuals and companies...
Turkish police torture two university personnel for weeks in Antalya over their alleged links...
Sedat Göçen and Ahmet Gödük, two former staff members of the International Antalya University, which was closed by a government decree issued under emergency...
Turkish gov’t detains 37 people over ‘promoting terrorism’ on social media
Turkish government has detained 37 more people across Turkey on Wednesday over allegedly taking part in an online smear campaign of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers'...
Two Turkish civilians killed by PYD/PKK attacks as Turkish military operation going on in...
Two Turkish civilian were killed by PYD/PKK attack as Turkish military's controversial military operation has been going on Afrin province of northern Syria.
Two more rockets...
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