German Chancellor Merkel says Turkey abuses Interpol warrants
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday criticized Turkey’s use of an Interpol arrest warrant to detain a German writer Doğan Akhanlı in Spain, telling...
Turkey’s Erdoğan pledges to open Turkey embassy in East Jerusalem
Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday said Turkey would open an embassy in the eastern sector of Jerusalem, as a response to...
4 of 6 men abducted six months ago now in police custody, 2 remain...
The family members of four men who were reportedly abducted by Turkish intelligence in February confirmed yesterday that their relatives were in custody at...
56 people detained in operations against HDP
Turkish police detained 56 people on terrorism-related charges in the southeastern cities of Gaziantep and Diyarbakır, including politicians from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party...
Jailed Turkish journalist Ahmet Altan acquitted in Erdoğan insult case
Famous Turkish author and journalist Ahmet Altan, who was jailed in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt in Turkey in July 2016, has...
EP’s Harms calls on EU to grant political asylum to Turkey purge victims
Rebecca Harms, spokeswoman for foreign affairs and expert on Turkey in the European Parliament’s Greens/EFA group, on Monday called on the European Union to...
Mother with 13-month-old detained in İstanbul over Gülen links
Elif Çadırcı, a mathematics teacher and mother of 13-month-old Melek Gül, was detained on Friday over alleged links to the Gülen movement and sent...
CHP’s Pavey says inmates subjected to inhuman treatment, torture in Turkey’s prisons
Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party's (CHP) deputy Şafak Pavey, who has shared her impressions from visits she paid to some well-known prisons in...
Pakistan government deports abducted Kaçmaz Family to Turkey
Turkish teacher Mesut Kaçmaz and his family, who were abducted from their home at a midnight in Lahore on September 27, were reportedly deported...
Prison parole boards discriminate against political prisoners, says HDP deputy
Prison parole boards discriminate against political prisoners, Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Züleyha Gülüm claimed in a parliamentary question to Justice Minister Abdülhamit Gül.
According...
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