32 more Turks including academics and doctors seek asylum in Greece
Thirty-two Turkish citizens including academics, teachers and doctors have applied for asylum in Greece after being detained by Greek Maritime Security forces on an...
Cellmate: Teacher abducted by Turkey’s MİT from Malaysia subjected to torture in Ankara
Alaettin Duman, a teacher in Malaysia who in 2016 was abducted by agents of the notorious Turkish National Intelligence Organisation (MİT) from Malaysia's capital...
Turkish Embassy in Copenhagen spies over Erdoğan opponents in Denmark
An adviser at the Turkish embassy in Copenhagen has confirmed that it collected information on alleged supporters of the Gülen movement, a faith-based social...
Kurdish party in Turkey refuses to drop ‘Kurdistan’ from name
Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK), a small faction with no parliamentary representation in Turkey, on Saturday once again refused a warning by Turkish judicial authorities...
Turkish court sentences academic Yiğiter for allegedly insulting Erdoğan in a tweet
A Turkish court has sentenced academic Cenk Yiğiter to one year, five months in prison for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in a...
Report: FBI refused to review Gülen extradition case over Turkish gov’t’s request
The federal investigation into US President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, retired general Michael Flynn, and his son as part of the probe...
European rights court fines Turkey for preventing inmate’s access to newspaper
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has faulted Turkey for violating the right to freedom of expression of an inmate who was barred...
Turkey’s top court annuls interior minister’s broad powers over civil society organizations
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has cancelled certain provisions of a 2020 law that granted the authority to the interior minister to suspend board members and...
Jailed Kurdish leader Demirtaş: Human tragedy unfolding in Turkish prisons
A human tragedy is unfolding in Turkish prisons, said Selahattin Demirtaş, the jailed former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), in a...
Top court rejects application alleging negligence by public officials in 2015 Ankara bombings
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has rejected an individual application claiming negligence by public officials in the 2015 Ankara train station bombings, the biggest terrorist attack...
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Throughout the year Turkey continued...
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Sippenhaft, also known as...