Turkish gov’t detains 12 military officers over alleged links to Gülen movement
The Turkish government detained 12 military officers, including 11 on active duty, on Thursday across Turkey as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt...
HDP report shows Turkish police tortured 36 villagers with truncheons, rifle butts and mop...
A report by pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) concerning an incident of villagers allegedly tortured by police in the Şemdinli district of Hakkari has...
CoE human rights commissioner calls on Turkey to refrain from further implementing new terrorism...
In a letter addressed to Turkey’s interior and justice ministers made public today, Council of Europe (CoE) Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatović called...
Turkish gov’t seizes and transfers 6,700 properties belonging to alleged members of Gülen movement
At least 6,700 pieces of real estate that were seized from alleged members of the Gülen movement have been transferred by Turkey's General Directorate of...
Report confirming 2013 Erdoğan corruption recordings were not fabricated submitted to court
Celal Çelik, a lawyer for the leader of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), submitted an expert report to a court on Monday...
CoE reveals ECtHR still gives credit to Turkish gov’t’s ‘remedies’ created for witch hunt...
A statement by the Council of Europe (CoE) has revealed that the CoE and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) still give credit...
Torturers have destroyed my family, says father who lost wife, son in Aegean Sea
Hasan Aksoy, a literature teacher who was purged from his job, lost his wife and 3-year-old son in the Aegean Sea after the boat...
Thirty-year-old woman dies of pneumonitis in Turkish prison
Nesrin Gençosman, a 30-year-old Turkish woman who was put in pretrial detention in May 2018 over alleged links to the Gülen movement, died on...
New research shows Turkey’s purge destroyed lives of 21,000 health care workers
More than 21,000 health care professionals including doctors, nurses, medical professors, technicians and hospital staff have thus far been dismissed from public and private...
Turkish TV anchor testifies due to allegedly insulting Erdoğan in tweet about banned theater...
Turkey’s private FOX TV anchor Fatih Portakal testified to a prosecutor in Istanbul after an investigation was launched to determine whether he had insulted...
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