İHD deputy chairman detained on terror charges

Human Rights Association (İHD) Deputy President Raci Bilici has been detained on terror charges in the southeastern province of Diyarbakır. Bilici, who is also the...

Turkish gov’t issues detention warrants for 5 more journalists over alleged Gülen links

The Turkish government on Thursday issued detention warrants for five journalists in an investigation into the now-defunct Karşı daily as part of its massive...

80-year-old Kurdish man dies of heart attack during trial

İbrahim Akbaba, an 80-year-old Kurdish man, died of a heart attack on Saturday in Edirne F Type Prison. Akbaba, a Kurdish citizen who was accused...

Wife of man abducted by Turkish intelligence arrested

Zehra Türkmen, the wife of Gökhan Türkmen, who was allegedly abducted by Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT), was arrested on October 1 to serve...

Turkey detains 261,000, arrests 91,000 in post-coup crackdown on Gülen followers

Turkey has investigated 559,064 people for alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, which is accused of masterminding a 2016 coup attempt despite its...

Judge from Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appels urges support for Erdoğan

Supreme Court of Appeals member Mustafa Aysal posted a message in a WhatsApp group aiming to garner support for President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the...
Sevdegül Güler

Bedridden woman whose mother was denied care allowance due to alleged affiliation with Gülen...

Sevdegül Güler, a bedridden woman whose mother was denied a care allowance by Turkey’s Ministry of Family and Social Policies due to her alleged...

Cartoonist Trivedi portrays 13 people disappeared in Turkey since July 15 coup attempt

Aseem Trivedi, a political cartoonist and free speech activist, has called people all around the world to raise their voices for the disappeared people...

ECtHR sets Dec. 5 as deadline for Turkish gov’t defense over jailed journalists

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has set December 5, 2017 as the deadline for Turkish government to submit its defense in cases...

Kurdish politician sentenced to more than 4 years in prison on insult charges

A Turkish court has sentenced Kurdish politician and former MP Selma Irmak to four years, two months in prison on charges of insulting President...

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