Purged 62 police officers detained over alleged ByLock use
A total of 62 police officers who were previously removed from their posts due to their alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement have...
Row between Turkey and the Netherlands escalates after flight clearance for Turkish FM canceled
The Netherlands canceled the flight clearance for Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu’s aircraft on Saturday shortly after Çavuşoğlu warned that Turkey would impose “harsh...
Court releases ISIL suspect of bomb attack in İstanbul due to health condition
An İstanbul court has ruled for the release of Erkan Çapkın, an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) suspect being tried in...
Rotterdam mayor says Turkish FM not allowed to campaign for referendum
Rotterdam Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb said on Friday that Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu would not be allowed to campaign for a referendum in Turkey...
Academics face up to 17.5 years in jail for Facebook posts
Three academics who were signatories of a peace declaration criticizing curfews imposed in Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish southeastern districts in 2015 are facing up to...
Police chief who was purged over Gülen links beaten on street in Samsun
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G.E., a former police chief in Samsun who was dismissed over alleged links to the Gülen movement following a failed coup attempt last year,...
Venice Commission warns against one-person regime in Turkey
The Council of Europe’s constitutional law experts, the Venice Commission, warn against a one-person regime in Turkey in a definitive, as-adopted, opinion on proposed...
Academic Gülmen and friends detained by police, tortured in detention
Dismissed with government's executive decrees academicians and teacher Nuriye Gülmen, Semih Özakça and Acun Karadağ, who have been staging a protest for 120 days...
Dutch gov’t cancels Minister Kaya’s political rallies in the Netherlands
Turkey’s Family and Social Affairs Minister Fatma Betül Sayan Kaya’s several political campaign meetings have been cancelled in the Netherlands and Germany on Friday....
ECtHR turns back application of dismissed judge over non-exhaustion of domestic remedies
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has announced that the application of judge Kadriye Çakar, who was dismissed by a decree under Turkey’s...
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