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...
Video shows Malaysian police detained Turkish expats at Turkey’s request
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A recent video recording submitted to Turkey Purge shows that Malaysia was detaining three Turks in the country at the request of Turkish government.
Malay police...
Journalist Nevin Yıldız detained with one-year-old baby in İstanbul
Journalist Nevin Yıldız, the responsible manager of the now-closed TV10 TV station, was detained at İstanbul’s Sabiha Gökçen Airport on Tuesday night with her...
French journalist Depardon detained in Turkey’s Batman
French photojournalist Mathias Depardon was detained on Monday after photographing the local scenery in Batman province.
Erol Önderoğlu, the Turkey representative of Reporters Sans Frontières,...
HSYK reshuffles 1,035 judges and prosecutors across Turkey
The Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSYK) has decided to reshuffle 1,035 judges and prosecutors on Tuesday following Friday's mass purge in the judiciary. According...
TUSİAD urges AKP government to continue with EU accession process
The Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen’s Association (TÜSİAD) on Tuesday urged the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government to continue with the EU accession process...
Cumhuriyet reporter Coşkun receives suspended sentence for story over Turkey’s MİT
An İstanbul court on Tuesday decided on a suspended 10-month sentence for Cumhuriyet daily reporter Canan Coşkun for her reports on the Turkish intelligence...
Turkish Parliament strips jailed HDP deputy Aydoğan of parliamentary status
The Turkish Parliament has stripped jailed pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Diyarbakır deputy Nursel Aydoğan of her parliamentary status after a sentence of 56...
Wikipedia challenges access ban at Turkey’s top court
Online encyclopedia Wikipedia has taken a court decision to ban access to the website that went into effect on April 29 to Turkey’s Constitutional...
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