Georgian Prosecutor applies to court for deportation of jailed Turkish educator Çabuk to Turkey
The Chief Prosecutor Office of Georgia has reportedly applied to Tbilisi Provincial Court for deportation of Mustafa Emre Çabuk, who was detained last year...
COMMENTARY — Erdoğan has ruined the lives of 1 million people in Turkey
By Abdullah Bozkurt
The criminal investigations, prosecutions and trials in politically motivated cases on trumped-up terrorism and coup plotting charges have ruined the lives of...
Turkish Medical Association’s 8 detained members released
Eight members of the Turkish Medical Association’s (TTB) central council who were detained last week over a critical statement on Turkey’s military operation in...
At least 28 women killed, 25 sexually harassed in Turkey last month
At least 28 women were killed in first month of 2018 and 25 others were subjected to sexual violence, according to a report released...
Turkish gov’t to introduce Internet censorship with ban on sex cult leader’s broadcasts
The Turkish government is planning to grant the authority to censor Internet TV channels to Turkey’s Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) under the...
Italian lawyers call interlocutors of Erdoğan in Rome to raise voice against his systematic...
Italian national bar association, "Unione delle Camere Penali Italiene (UCPI)", has called on all Italian interlocutors of the Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan not...
Zabit Kişi, Turkish citizen abducted in Kazakhstan, jailed in Turkey after more than 5...
Zabit Kişi, who was one of the two Turkish nationals who were abducted from a plane in Kazakhstan in mid-September 2017, was formally arrested...
Turkey’s Erdoğan and Pope Francis meet in Vatican as Rome locked down in tight...
Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made the first visit by a Turkish president to see the Pope in the Vatican in 59 years...
Turkey’s Constitutional Court rejects release demand of journalists Alpay and Altan
The Constitutional Court has rejected the release demand of two prominent Turkish journalists, Şahin Alpay and Mehmet Altan, despite earlier ruling that the rights...
Dutch government formally withdraws ambassador to Turkey over 2017 row
The Dutch Foreign Ministry on Monday said it had formally withdrawn its ambassador to Turkey, who has been physically barred from the country for...
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