AKP deputy Kuzu calls on prosecutors to investigate NATO base in Turkey over coup
Burhan Kuzu, a member of the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) Central Decision and Executive Board (MKYK) and AKP İstanbul deputy, has called...
At least 11 Turkish soldiers killed, 9 wounded during Afrin operation in a day
Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) neutralized at least 39 more PYD/PKK and allegedly ISIL militants during the ongoing operation in Syria’s Afrin that also left...
Turkey’s enforced disappearances charted in a new report
The Brussels-based NGO Solidarity with OTHERS has published a new report titled “Enforced Disappearances: Turkey’s Open Secret” that maps out enforced disappearances connected to...
Turkish gov’t issues detention warrants for 143 people affiliated with Gülen linked 36 CSOs...
Turkish government has detained dozens of people while detention warrants issued for hundreds on Wednesday as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt campaign...
Turkey’s top court receives over 190,000 individual applications in last 6 years
Turkey’s Constitutional Court received 191,371 individual applications between 2012 and June 30 of this year, some 60 percent of them concerning violations of the...
Vaccine rollout in Turkish prisons begins amid criticism
Turkey’s justice ministry announced in a statement on Thursday that the coronavirus vaccine rollout in prisons had commenced amid criticism of the inability of...
Curfew declared in 25 villages of Kulp district of Turkey’s Diyarbakır province
Curfew has been declared in 25 villages and hamlets in Kulp district of Diyarbakır province in southeastern Turkey. Diyarbakır Governorship has announced that the...
Turkey’s Erdoğan cancels press conference amid crisis with US
Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday cancelled a planned press conference at İstanbul Atatürk Airport as a visa crisis that erupted following...
Turkish police detain 6 members of Grup Yorum music band: report
Turkish police on Wednesday detained six members of folk music band Grup Yorum as they were rehearsing for a concert in İstanbul’s Beykoz district,...
Human rights bodies: 5,268 people tortured under Turkey’s state of emergency
A total of 5,268 people, including 133 children, were reportedly subjected to torture in Turkish prisons, under police custody, outside of detention facilities, during...
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