Turkish spy agency abducted former NATO intel officer, tortured him for days
Operatives from Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT) for days tortured a lieutenant colonel who had worked for NATO’s intelligence section and was educated in...
Turkish government sells properties of 8 media outlets seized from critics
Properties belonging to eight of the media outlets that the Turkish government seized under post-coup emergency rule have been put up for sale by...
Turkish court bans three books on Kurdish history
Three translated books on Kurdish history published by Turkey’s Avesta Yayıncılık have been banned by a local Turkish court on the grounds of “triggering...
Turkish singer Atilla Taş detained to serve sentence for alleged links to Gülen movement
Atilla Taş, a former singer and a columnist for the now-closed Meydan daily, was detained by police on Friday morning for the execution of...
Turkey’s Supreme Election Board rejects all appeals to cancel referendum
The Supreme Election Board (YSK) rejected petitions submitted by three political parties to cancel Sunday's controversial constitutional referendum result. Ten out of 11 YSK...
Turkey’s TMSF controls 937 companies seized by Turkish gov’t over alleged Gülen links
Nine hundred thirty-seven companies with TL 19,4 billion (about 3,5 billion euros) in equity and assets of TL 50 billion (about 9 billion euros)...
Post-coup victim judge succumbs to cancer after release from prison
Mehmet Tosun, a 29-year-old Turkish judge who was expelled from his job and subsequently arrested over alleged involvement in a July 15 coup attempt...
Pro-Kurdish HDP launches ‘Conscience and Justice Watch’ demonstrations in Turkey despite police barrier
As the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has launched "Conscience and Justice Watch" demonstarions on Tuesday in Ekin Ceren Park in Diyarbakır province to...
UN working group accepts 8 arbitrary detention complaints from Turkey
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has accepted eight individual complaints from Turkey under an “Urgent Action” procedure, Euronews Turkish reported on April...
8-year-old son of purge victims dies of cancer
Ahmet Burhan Ataç, an 8-year-old whose parents have been prosecuted over alleged links to the Gülen movement, died of cancer early on Thursday, according...
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