Turkish teacher Ayşe Çelik released from Diyarbakır Prison
Turkish teacher Ayşe Çelik, who was jailed with her baby earlier this month on terror charges because she had said, “Don’t let children die”...
OSCE’s Désir condemns harsh prison sentences for Zaman journalists, calls for their release
Harlem Désir, representative on freedom of the media for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), voiced strong disapproval of a Turkish...
Int’l organizations decry Turkish court’s verdicts for Zaman journalists, calling them ‘perversion of justice’
International organizations including the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch (HRW), Reporters Without Borders (RSF), the Committee...
Human rights NGOs: Turkish police torture, threaten lawyer with rape of family members
The Human Rights Association (İHD) and the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) held a press conference on Tuesday regarding allegations of the torture...
Defence minister: Turkish military to stay in Syria’s Afrin region until threats eliminated
The Turkish military will continue to take necessary measures in Syria’s Afrin region, from which it drove the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militia...
Human Rights Watch: Turkish border guards shoot, block fleeing Syrians
Turkish guards at the border with Syria are indiscriminately shooting at and summarily returning asylum seekers attempting to cross into Turkey, New York-based Human...
Kurdish politician denied medical care for a week despite loss of consciousness
Selahattin Demirtaş, an imprisoned Kurdish politician, temporarily lost consciousness on Nov. 26 after experiencing pain in his chest and trouble breathing but was not...
Turkish woman sent back to jail with her newborn baby a day after delivery
Ayşe Ateş, who was jailed when she was five months pregnant due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, gave birth at an İzmir...
Report: Flynn’s Turkish client to quit after inclusion in Mueller probe
Chairman of the Turkey-US Business Council (TAİK) Ekim Alptekin has reportedly decided to resign from his post after Special Counsel Robert Mueller included the...
70-year-old Turkish businessman re-arrested after Erdoğan’s henchman reacted to his release
Cahit Nakıboğlu, a 70-year-old businessman who spent nearly 1,5 years behind the bars as part of the government’s post-coup crackdown against the Gülen movement,...
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