An armored vehicle used by Turkish security forces kills old woman in Diyarbakır’s Lice...

An old woman named Pakize Hazar has reportedly lost her life when she was hit by an armored vehicle used by Turkish security forces...

Turkish courts give long prison sentences to alleged members of Gülen movement over trivial...

A teacher, Hasan Günay, who used to work for Private Yamanlar College which was one of the most successfull Turkish schools before unlawfully closed...

Turkish government detains 78 lawyers over alleged links to Gülen movement on Wednesday

Turkish police has detained 78 lawyers in an investigation as part of Turkish government's massive post-coup witch hunt campaign targeting the alleged members of...

Curfew declared in 11 villages of Turkey’s Batman province

Turkish authorities on Tuesday declared a curfew in 11 villages of the Kozluk and Silvan districts in Batman province, going into effect at 6...

Kurdish workers attacked in Turkey Ankara province by nationalist mob

Eight construction workers from Bingöl, a Kurdish majority city, were reportedly attacked by what appeared to be a nationalist mob late on Monday at...

COMMENTARY — Turkey intel knew ISIL suicide bomber, his accomplices in the murder of...

By Abdullah Bozkurt As in many recent cases involving Jihadists and radical militants, it came as no surprise to trace the footprints of Turkish intelligence...

In a letter, a jailed woman reveals abuse and ill-treatment in Turkish prison

A letter by a jailed Turkish woman who wrote to her aunt from Konya prison revealed the ill-treatment of detainees who were subjected to...

CHP leader Kılıçdaroğlu slams ECtHR for rejecting post-coup appeals from Turkey

Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party's (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has slammed the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) for rejecting a critical application...

ECtHR asks for Turkey’s defense in case of jailed Cumhuriyet journalists

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has asked Turkey to submit a defense in the case against jailed Cumhuriyet daily journalists, telling  the...

Yet another woman who just gave birth faces detention over alleged Gülen links

Elif Coşkun, who just gave birth on Monday night in Turkey’s western province of İzmir, will allegedly be taken into custody in the hospital...

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