Turkish court rules to continue pre-trial detention of Amnesty’s Taner Kılıç
The İstanbul 35th High Criminal Court on Thursday ruled to continue the pretrial detention of Amnesty International’s honorary Turkey chair, Taner Kılıç, at the...
Kosovo grants asylum to Turkish educator who escaped MİT abduction attempt
Uğur Toksoy, a Turkish national allegedly affiliated with the Gülen movement, was granted asylum in Kosovo after escaping an attempted abduction by Turkey's National...
Turkish police raid critical online news outlet Sendika62.org
Turkish police raided the offices of Sendika62.org, a left-leaning online news outlet critical of the Turkish government, at 2:15 a.m. on Thursday, with prosecutors...
Parents seek UN help as no news from Turkish teacher abducted in Pakistan
There has been no trace of Turkish teacher Mesut Kaçmaz and his family since they were abducted by a group of people in police...
CHP vice chair: More than 100,000 children reported missing in Turkey in 8 years
As media coverage of missing children in Turkey has recently increased, Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) Vice Chairperson Gamze Akkuş İlgezdi announced data compiled by...
Switzerland probes Turkish diplomats’ plot to kidnap pro-Gülen businessman
Switzerland is investigating whether Turkish diplomats planned to drug and kidnap a Swiss-Turkish businessman who is an alleged member of the Gülen movement, as...
Turkish-German humor writer Taş deported from Turkey for looking ‘suspicious’
Bülent Taş, a Turkish-German humor writer and theater director, was deported from Turkey after he was kept in police custody for two days on...
Banker, jailed unlawfully, faces health troubles in Turkish prison
A bank manager who had been working for Turkey’s one-time largest Islamic lender Bank Asya risks deaths over serious complications of his health in...
Turkish journalist Coşkun faces 3 years in prison over report
An İstanbul prosecutor presented his final opinion to a court on Tuesday in a case against journalist Canan Coşkun, demanding up to three years’...
SCF report on the Netherlands decodes Erdoğan’s long arm in Europe
Turkey has escalated its witch hunt persecution on critics to abroad using government institutions, quasi-official parallel structures and front NGOs, a report released by Stockholm...
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