6,200 out of 15,500 Jewish citizens of Turkey preparing to leave the country

6,200 out of 15,500 Jewish citizens are preparing to leave Turkey. According to a report by Forward news outlet forty percent of the Turkey’s steadily shrinking Jewish...

Turkey’s DİTİB given Big Brother award for spying on Erdoğan critics in Germany

The Cologne-based Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DİTİB) has been awarded the BigBrotherAward 2017 in the category of politics for its spying activities against the...

VIDEO — Turkish women say husbands detained in Malaysia cannot be linked to ISIL

https://youtu.be/kmn6BgRnqtc The wives of three Turkish men who were detained by Malaysian police in Kuala Lumpur last week have said their husbands are not Islamic...

Alleged member of PKK taken away from prison by Diyarbakır Police goes missing

An inmate in Diyarbakır D Type Prison, named Afşin Musazade, an alleged member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), was recently taken away...

A Turkish diplomat couple disappears in Greek city of Thessaloniki

A Turkish diplomat couple working in Greece has disappeared, state-run Anadolu news agency reported by basing on an anonymous diplomatic source on Saturday by...

Lawyer defending detained lawyer detained over coup charges in Turkey

O.G., a lawyer representing his colleague D.U. who was earlier detained for his/her alleged use of mobile app ByLock, was taken into custody over...

Turkey’s Justice Minister: 149,833 investigated, 48,636 arrested since July 15 coup attempt

Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ on Saturday said 149,833 people have been investigated and 48,636 have been jailed as part of an investigation targeting...

Turkey jails 3 more journalists on terrorism charges

Despite calls from international media organizations to release jailed journalists in Turkey, three more Turkish journalists have been arrested and jailed on charges of...

Turkish gov’t dismisses 107 more judges and prosecutors

Turkey’s top judicial body, the Supreme Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK), has dismissed 107 more judges and prosecutors over alleged ties to the...

UN concerned about detention of 3 Turks in Malaysia

The UN Human Rights Office for South-East Asia on Friday expressed serious concern about the arrest in Malaysia of three Turkish nationals on security-related...

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