Yet another family ruined as mother dies while purge-victim father is in jail
Two-year-old Elif Zehra Çalışkan is now without parents as her mother died after falling from a balcony and her father, an academic, has been...
Mother with 13-month-old detained in İstanbul over Gülen links
Elif Çadırcı, a mathematics teacher and mother of 13-month-old Melek Gül, was detained on Friday over alleged links to the Gülen movement and sent...
Mother with 2 disabled children detained over Gülen links
Hatice Kökoğlu, the mother of a disabled son and daughter, has reportedly been detained in Kütahya province over alleged links to the Gülen movement....
Report: Four people falsely accused by Turkish gov’t of ByLock use committed suicide
At least four people under investigation for use of the ByLock mobile app, which they had never downloaded, have committed suicide, according to human...
Seven pro-Kurdish people, including Co-mayors of Doğubayazıt Municipality, arrested
Seven people including Kurdish Co-mayors of Doğubayazıt district of Turkey’s eastern province of Ağrı were arrested on Saturday.
Seven people, including Doğubayazıt Co-mayors Murat Rohat...
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...
Turkish police seize passport of Communist party leader at airport
The passport of Erkan Baş, chairman of the People’s Communist Party of Turkey (HTKP), was seized by Turkish police at an İstanbul airport on...
Turkey’s CHP and AKP trade barbs over claims of President Erdoğan’s off-shore accounts
Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) is set on Tuesday to challenge a statement by Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that he...
Turkish opposition leader Kılıçdaroğlu says US indictment of former minister tip of iceberg
After an arrest warrant was ordered in the US for a disgraced former Turkish minister, the head of the main opposition party in Turkey...
European court rules Turkey violated top judge’s rights
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Tuesday ruled that Turkey had violated the right to liberty and security as well as the...
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