Turkish border forces detain 4 people over Gülen links while trying to flee to...
Turkish border security forces on Monday detained four people identified as İ.A., Ç.B., T.B. and M.A. in the border zone of Edirne province over...
Rights groups demand release of jailed Kurdish leaders on 7th anniversary of their arrest
In a joint statement released Friday, four prominent human rights organizations have called for the immediate release of Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ, the former co-chairs...
8-year-old stripped of ‘Super Dad’ T-shirt by Turkish authorities during visit to jailed father
An 8-year-old boy was stripped of his T-shirt that bore the words ‘Super Dad’ during a visit to his father, under arrest for at...
Turkey’s Erdoğan slams US, says Manbij next target
Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday reacted to calls from the US to wrap up an operation in the Afrin region of...
Turkish gov’t appoints trustee to anti-government Furkan Foundation
An Adana court on Friday appointed a trustee to the Furkan Foundation, whose 25 members including President Alparslan Kuytul, leader of a religious group...
Expelled pro-Kurdish MP‘s ‘justice watch’ at parliament in third day
Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a former MP from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) who was stripped of his parliamentary status on Wednesday and has...
Turkish court ignores European rights court’s Demirtaş judgement
The Turkish criminal court that convicted Selahattin Demirtaş, the former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), for a speech he made on...
Turkey arrests 22 lawyers, issues detention warrants for 34 others
A total of twenty-two lawyers were arrested by a Turkish court on Sunday in an investigation targeting the Gülen movement, which the Turkish government...
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...
CHP deputy: Reyhanlı rockets fired from inside Turkish territory
Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Mevlüt Dudu on Tuesday said rockets that killed one and injured 46 in the Reyhanlı district...
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