Turkey’s autocratic President Erdoğan says 176 of 177 journalists in jail on terrorism charges

Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said 176 of 177 journalists in prison in Turkey are there due to their ties to terrorist...

Wife of veteran police who lost hand, eyes in bomb attack under custody over...

Özlem Konakçı, the wife of former bomb disposal expert Bilal Konakçı, was also reportedly detained over her alleged links to the Gülen movement, which...

Another dismissed public employee abducted in broad daylight in Turkey’s capital Ankara

Yet another victim of the Turkish government's massive post-coup witch hunt campaign targeting the alleged members of the Gülen movemenet was abducted by forcinh...

Washington police release video of 8 more Erdoğan bodyguards wanted for attack

https://youtu.be/tlXWZRXKZyY The Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department released a video on Saturday of eight more “persons of interest” believed to be in Turkey's autocratic President...

‘Call for Transparency’ campaign launched for court proceedings of Turkey’s controversial coup bid

A "Call for Transparency" campaign has been kicked off by a group of intelectuals in change.org  for the court proceedings of the controversial coup attempt...

Turkey’s DİTİB not to take part in ‘March Against Terror’ in Germany

The Cologne-based Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DİTİB) is not taking part in a “March Against Terror,” which will be participated in by thousands...

Turkey’s Erdoğan threatens main opposition CHP leader Kılıçdaroğlu with arrest

Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has threatened main opposition Republican People's Party's (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu with possible arrest by saying on Saturday that...

TRT World’s two reporters detained during Turkish FM’s visit to Saudi Arabia

Two reporters working for state-broadcaster TRT World were briefly detained in Saudi Arabia during Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu’s visit to the country, reported by...

Amnesty expresses concern over increasing arbitrary pre-trial detention, torture in Turkey in UN Human...

Amnesty International (AI) has stated that the human rights organization is alarmed by the increasing use of arbitrary pre-trial detention, often in cases where there...

Kavurmacı and Çapkın re-arrested; 11 lawyers, 20 teachers detained in Turkey over alleged ties...

Following an arrest warrant issued by an İstanbul court on Friday İstanbul Mayor Kadir Topbaş’s son-in-law Ömer Faruk Kavurmacı was re-arrested on Saturday and...

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