US National Security Adviser McMaster: Qatar, Turkey new sponsors of radical ideology
Turkey and Qatar are the new sponsors of radical Islamist ideology in the Middle East, US National Security Adviser General HR McMaster was quoted as...
Turkey’s CHP: Some 50 post-coup victims committed suicide, 14 disappeared in 2017
Nearly 50 people committed suicide after being subjected to post-coup rights violations while 14 others were forced or attempted to disappear between January 1...
IFEX calls for int’l action for pro-Kurdish human rights lawyer Keskin
The global network for defending and promoting free expression (IFEX) made an urgent call on Thursday for international action to prevent a lengthy time in...
Greek administration agrees to provide protection to two Turkish soldiers
The Greek administration agreed on Monday to provide protection for two former Turkish commandos who fled to Greece on the night of a controversial...
UN human rights specialists call on Turkey to release rights defenders
A group of United Nations experts on Friday called on the Turkish government to immediately release nine human rights defenders and two foreign trainers...
Turkish gov’t detains 20 people in Manisa over their alleged links to Gülen movement
Turkish government has detained 20 people on Wednesday in Manisa province in an investigation as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt campaign targeting...
Lawyer’s office attacked in Turkey’s Eskişehir due to animosity towards pro-Kurdish HDP
Unidentified individuals staged an attack on an office belonging to lawyer Heval Yıldız Karasu in Eskişehir’s Odunpazarı district on Tuesday night, the Demirören news...
ECtHR decides dismissed civil servants to challenge before Commission by ignoring lack of rule...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has decided Turkish civil servants, who have been dismissed after the failed coup attempt on July 15,...
Dismissed academic, symbol of resistance, again arrested by Turkish court: report
Nuriye Gülmen, who became a symbol of resistance against the Turkish government’s authoritarian practices after going on a hunger strike for nearly a year,...
New mother detained over alleged Gülen links despite doctor’s objection in Turkey
Hatice Avan, who gave birth to a baby in the western Turkish province of Denizli on Thursday, was detained on Friday, despite her doctor’s...
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