Rights activist briefly detained by Turkish police following fundraising for cancer patient
Natali Avazyan, a Turkish-Armenian human rights activist, tweeted on Tuesday that she was being taken into police custody, adding that the police had raided...
Turkey’s Justice Minister Bozdağ says 50,504 arrested since coup attempt
Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ said on Friday that since a controversial coup attempt last July, 50,504 people have been arrested and 168,801 are...
Former TV anchorman arrested as part of post-coup crackdown in Turkey
Erkan Akkuş, a former anchorman at the now-closed Bugün TV, has been arrested by a Turkish court as part of a post-coup crackdown.
A detention...
ECtHR rejects judges nominated by Turkey, deems them ‘insufficient’
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has rejected the list of judge nominees sent by Turkey to the court, deeming the candidates are...
Imprisoned HDP co-chair given 14-month jail sentence for ‘insulting’ Erdoğan
Figen Yüksekdağ, former co-chairperson of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), has been given a prison sentence of 14 months on charges of insulting...
448 people detained in one week in post-coup witch hunt targeting Gülen movement
The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that a total of 448 people were detained in the past week as part of an ongoing...
Hunger strike of Gülmen and Özakça enters a critical stage on 57th day
Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, a university academic and a school teacher who are among tens of thousands of victims dismissed by notorious government...
Turkish courts order continuation of all jailed journalists’ imprisonments
İstanbul 13th High Criminal Court in the notorious Silivri Prison compound and the 26th Heavy Penal Court at İstanbul’s Çağlayan courthouse have ordered the...
COMMENTARY — Iran might have listened in on Erdoğan-Trump talks
By Abdullah Bozkurt
The office of the Turkish presidency has shared a photo while Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was talking on the phone with US President...
Number of Turks seeking asylum in Greece rises fivefold since 2014
The number of Turkish citizens seeking asylum in Greece has increased fivefold since 2014 as a total of 236 Turks have applied for asylum...
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