Turkish woman detained on coup charges hours after giving birth in Ankara
Sevim Çelik, a Turkish teacher who gave birth to a baby in Ankara on Friday, was reportedly detained later the same day over alleged...
COMMENTARY — Turkey uses consular services as a weapon of persecution
By Abdullah Bozkurt
The pattern of increasing cases of arbitrary refusal of consular services to critics and dissidents abroad by Turkey’s embassies and consulates is...
Turkey’s Alevis worried by their homes in Malatya neighborhood marked red
Fear have been raised in Turkey's Malatya province after the doors of several homes in an Alevi neighborhood were “marked” red in the early...
Turkish gov’t prosecutes 261 people over social media posts in a week
The Turkish government has investigated 333 social media accounts and taken legal action against 261 users over the last week (July 30-August 6) on...
Human rights defender professor forced to retire due to prison sentence
Professor Şebnem Korur Fincancı, the head of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) and a doctor of forensics, retired from her position at...
Businessman Demirkale becomes latest suspicious death in a Turkish prison
Davut Demirkale, a Turkish businessman who was arrested over his alleged links to the Gülen movement on July 8, 2018 in southern city of Mersin,...
Ottoman time Tekbir to replace Chopin’s piece at funerals of fallen Turkish soldiers
The Turkish Interior Ministry has ordered governors to play Ottoman-era composer Itri’s piece with lyrics from Qur'an verses instead of Frédéric François Chopin’s “Marche...
Erdoğan calls US indictment of former Turkish minister ‘political’
Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday criticized the indictment by a US attorney’s office of former Turkish Economy Minister Mehmet Zafer Çağlayan...
COVID-19 restrictions lead to rights violations in Turkish prisons, bar association and medical chamber...
COVID-19 restrictions that are still in effect in Turkish prisons, despite their elimination elsewhere, lead to serious rights violations, the chairpersons of the İstanbul...
Turkish academic Çalışkan sentenced to 18 months in prison over Gülen propaganda
Associate Professor Koray Çalışkan, who was detained on July 10, 2017 as part of an investigation into 20 university academics and later released under...
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