Director of movies on Erdoğan and coup arrested over alleged links to Gülen movement
Turkish filmmaker Ali Avcı was arrested and sent to prison by an İstanbul court on Wednesday over his alleged links to the Gülen movement....
Turkish gov’t aims to diminish bar associations’ role as human rights watchdogs: HRW
The Turkish government’s plan to allow for multiple bar associations appears calculated to divide the legal profession along political lines and diminish the biggest...
Turkish gov’t detains 970 people over alleged links to Gülen movement in a week
Turkish government has detained at least 970 people as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt campaign targeting the alleged members of the Gülen...
Turkey’s Erdoğan vows to criminalize adultery
Turkey should again consider criminalizing adultery, Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Tuesday, revisiting an issue that caused outrage among secular Turks...
German press groups call for release of Die Welt reporter detained in Turkey
German press organizations have called on Turkish authorities to release Die Welt reporter Deniz Yücel who was detained in Turkey on Feb.17.
Yücel, the Turkey...
Turkey’s Ankara Mayor Gökçek hints ‘genocide’ for followers of Gülen movement
Melih Gökçek, the mayor of Turkey's capital city Ankara, has hinted a kind of "genocide" for alleged members of faith-based Gülen movement, in an...
Turkish journalist Cuma Ulus jailed for Retweeting ‘Journalism is not a crime’
One of Turkey’s leading broadcast journalists Cuma Ulus has been languishing behind bars for 482 days over social media messages that were posted by...
Conscript convicted of involvement in failed coup says he has been robbed of his...
Hamza Yıldız, a young private in the Turkish military convicted of involvement in a failed coup in July 2016 and handed down nine life...
Turkey jails another 63 former police officers over mobile app
Another 63 police officers who were earlier dismissed from profession have been put under arrest over their alleged use of ByLock smartphone application. Turkish authorities...
Turkish educator Akçay in Mongolia applies to UN for urgent action against imminent abduction...
Turkish educator Veysel Akçay, the general director of schools affiliated with the Gülen movement in Mongolia, who was abducted by the agents of Turkey’s...
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