Paralysed Turkish teacher held in prison for 20 months on coup charges
İsa Kara, a 54-year-old teacher who was fired from his job after a controversial coup attempt on July 15, 2016, has reportedly been kept in...
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...
Journalist Gülseven, detained over alleged insult to Turkey’s Erdoğan, released
The chief editor of the Redaktif website, Hakan Gülseven, who was detained on Friday in Balıkesir province on charges of insulting Turkey's autocratic President...
Turkish gov’t detains dozens of people over alleged links to Gülen movement
The Turkish government detained dozens of people, including police officers, across Turkey on Tuesday as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt targeting alleged...
At least 44 people, including AP reporter, detained by police at İstanbul’s banned LGBT...
At least 44 people were detained at the LGBT Pride March in İstanbul’s Taksim Square on Sunday, as tension rose after the İstanbul Governor’s...
Private school managers sentenced in Turkey to 7.5 years in jail over coup charges
Nine people who used to work at dormitories and schools closed by the government over coup charges and alleged ties to the Gülen movement in...
Ministry of Interior refuses to disclose data on crimes committed by police, nighttime neighborhood...
In response to questions posed by Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Süleyman Bülbül, the Turkish Ministry of Interior has refused to disclose any information...
ECtHR faults Turkey for pretrial detention of 45 people over Gülen links
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has faulted Turkey over the arrest and pretrial detention of 45 individuals in the aftermath of a...
HDP: Turkey’s democratization depends on permanent peace
Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) held a press conference on Wednesday to share their vision on solutions regarding the Kurdish question, stressing that...
Turkish police officer Korkmaz ties Turkish banker Atilla to Iran trade in Zarrab case
After delivering testimony implicating Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and others in corruption, Hüseyin Korkmaz, the former deputy head of the İstanbul Police...
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