Turkey detains more businessmen, academicians, teachers in post-coup witch hunt
Police detained Yalova Chamber of Commerce and Industry (YTSO) chairman along with its 4 board members as part of a post-coup witch hunt campaign targeting...
Woman journalist in Turkey traumatized by abuse and torture at police station
A veteran woman Turkish journalist who remained in nine month long pre-trial detention has been subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment at the police...
59 years-old author dies after allegedly falling from balcony as police raid home to...
Mustafa Hikmet Kayapalı, 59-year-old theologian and author targeted by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government under the rule of Turkey's autocratic President Recep...
S&D president Pittella to attend HDP Co-chair Demirtaş’s trial in Turkey
Gianni Pittella, President of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) in the European Parliament, is going to start a two-day visit to...
AKP favoritism in judicial appointments evidenced in mistakenly sent fax
Amid claims that the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is using a purge launched following a coup attempt in Turkey on July 15...
Top court president says April 16 vote made separation of powers more evident
President of Turkey’s Council of State Zerrin Güngör has said a referendum held on a constitutional reform package on April 16 that transformed the...
Former AKP deputy Uzun arrested over alleged Gülen links
Former Justice and Development Party (AKP) Mersin deputy Ahmet Tevfik Uzun, who was detained on Monday morning as part of an operation targeting the...
Symptoms of Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome emerge in 2 educators on hunger strike in Turkey
Early symptoms of Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome (WKS), caused by a deficiency of vitamin B1, have begun to manifest in two educators who are in the...
Horrific torture details emerge in Turkey’s capital, a lawyer reveals to SCF
Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) has received further details about horrific tales about ongoing torture and abuse in an exposed unofficial detention facility in...
Turkish Consulate in Warsaw seized passport of a news portal founder
Turkey’s General Consulate in Warsaw has seized the passport of a Turkish national in Poland as part of increasing pattern of arbitrary refusal of...
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