18 students, 3 teachers detained during Turkish police raid on prep school over Gülen...
Twenty-one people were detained in a Friday police raid on a prep school established by teachers who were earlier removed from their jobs by...
Erdoğan says Fethullah Gülen will be abducted just like 6 Turks in Kosovo
Autocratic Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, who lives in the US, will face the same end as...
Organizers say İstanbul LGBT pride march will go ahead despite ban
İstanbul’s sixth lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) pride march will go ahead on Sunday even though the governor of the city banned it...
The Economist: Torture, abductions return to Turkey but international response is weak
Torture has re-emerged in Turkish prisons amid the fallout from the last year’s abortive coup, however international response has remained weak so far, said...
Turkish gov’t detains dozens of people over alleged links to Gülen movement
The Turkish government has detained dozens of people across Turkey in the last two days as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt targeting...
COMMENTARY — Erdoğan’s personal troubles complicate Turkey-US ties
By Abdullah Bozkurt
The number one concern for Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan while meeting with visiting Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Feb....
Four university students detained over placards allegedly insulting Turkey’s Erdoğan
Three students of Turkey's prestigious Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) in Ankara were detained for carrying placards that allegedly insulted President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,...
Turkey Purge: 1,895 people detained, 992 people jailed in past 15 days over coup...
Turkish government has continued its massive post-coup witch hunt targeting the alleged members of the Gülen movement and the citizens from Turkey’s Kurdish minority...
Pro-Erdoğan televangelist Adnan Oktar, his followers detained by Turkish police
İstanbul police early Wednesday detained Adnan Oktar (62), a controversial Muslim televangelist known abroad as "Harun Yahya" over the work done on his anti-evolution...
Saturday Mothers activist to receive compensation for detention during protest
Aydın Aydoğan, a member of the Saturday Mothers activist group, has won a court case and will receive non-pecuniary damages from the state for...
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Turkey's record on torture and ill-treatment continued to deteriorate in 2025, despite its commitments under international human rights conventions.
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Turkey’s Crackdown on the Gülen Movement: 2025 in Review
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