Stockholm Center for Freedom calls on Malaysia to stop persecuting Turkish nationals
Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF), a monitoring group on rights violations in Turkey, remain highly concerned on the pattern of abductions, detentions and forcible...
Turkey’s Constitutional Court rejects Demirtaş’s application for release
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has rejected an application filed by lawyers for release of Selahattin Demirtaş, the jailed presidential candidate of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party...
Slain Saudi journalist Khashoggi’s Turkish fiancée: He thought Turkey was a safe country
Jamal Khashoggi’s Turkish fiancée, Hatice Cengiz, said in an interview broadcast live on Habertürk on Thursday that the slain Saudi journalist was experiencing “great...
Turkey’s jailed presidential candidate Demirtaş appeals to public via phone call to his wife
Selahattin Demirtaş, the presidential candidate of Turkey's Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) who has been in pretrial detention since November 2016, addressed the Turkish...
Turkey’s Erdoğan signals legislation to transfer opposition CHP’s shares in İş Bank to Treasury
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said he thinks the opposition Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) shares in İşbank can be transferred to the Treasury...
Turkish police detains woman shortly after delivery in Ankara over alleged Gülen links
A Turkish women, Nazlı N. Mert, who has just given birth to a baby at private Lokman Hekim Hospital in Ankara's Etlik neighborhood, was...
Turkish Deputy PM Bozdağ says German Foreign Minister Gabriel has ‘inferiority complex’
Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdağ has targeted Germany’s foreign minister Sigmar Gabirel after he offered damning criticism of Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip...
Prison guards refer to notorious torturer while mistreating inmates in SE Turkey
Prison guards in a Gaziantep prison allegedly beat inmates İlhami İşçi and Uğur Ürün over an argument, making reference to a military officer accused...
Berlin says Turkish gov’t released another German citizen from jail
The German Foreign Ministry announced on Friday that another German citizen jailed in Turkey has been freed, a week after the release of German-Turkish...
Turkey’s terrorism financing law targeting freedom of association draws concern from UN
UN special rapporteurs in a joint letter sent to the Turkish government on February 11 expressed serious concern about Turkey’s new terrorism financing legislation...
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