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UN rights chief criticizes Turkish gov’t for withdrawing from Istanbul Convention, detaining politicians and...

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet in a press statement released today by her spokesperson Liz Throssell criticized the Turkish government...

Top judicial body instructs judges to arrest more Gülen supporters: report

According to a document that the Kronos news website published on Saturday, Turkey’s top judicial body, the Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK), sent...

Turkish gov’t indicts foreign academic on terror charges for allegedly using ByLock

An academic from Kosovo who used to work for the İzmir Institute of Technology has been indicted on charges of membership in a terrorist...

More than 100 people abducted thanks to ‘intelligence diplomacy’: Turkey’s vice president

Vice President Fuat Oktay said in a speech in parliament that more than 100 people with alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, have...

Turkish FM Çavuşoğlu says US will learn how to talk to Turkey

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on Saturday said the US has to learn how to talk to Turkey, underlining that old habits must be...

Video shows Malaysian police detained Turkish expats at Turkey’s request

https://turkeypurge.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Untitled-1.mp4 A recent video recording submitted to Turkey Purge shows that Malaysia was detaining three Turks in the country at the request of Turkish government. Malay police...

Political prisoner in need of urgent treatment waiting in quarantine cell

Ali Öztürk, 48, who was imprisoned on trumped-up terrorism charges, has been waiting for a week to be taken to a hospital for an...

FIDH: Journalist Çapan imprisoned in Turkey after unofficial refoulement from Greece

Turkish journalist Murat Çapan has been imprisoned in Turkey after unofficial refoulement from Greece, said the FIDH (International Federation for Human Rights) in a...

Turkey launches probe into dismissed protestor’s 70-year-old mother

The Ankara Chief Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation into 7 people, including Kezban Şaçılık, the mother Veli Saçılık who is activist and a sociologist...

German police killed member of ultra-nationalist Turkish gang Osmanen Germania in Wuppertal

A member of ultra-nationalist Turkish gang, Osmanen Germania, was shot and killed by German police during a raid in the city of Wuppertal on Friday,...

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