Turkish police detain 10 people during demonstrations marking terror attack
Turkish police on Friday detained 10 people who were attempting to make statements to the press at demonstrations in Ankara and İstanbul marking the third...
Turkey’s dismissed academics want their passports back after state of emergency lifted
Turkish academics who were dismissed from their jobs by government decrees during a two-year-long state of emergency have started a campaign on social media...
70-year-old Kemal Gün ends hunger strike after getting son’s remains on 90th day of...
Kemal Gün, a 70-year-old man who was on a hunger strike to get the remains of his son, a militant of the far-left Revolutionary...
British Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee: Gülen not responsible for the July 15 coup attempt
The British Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee (FCO) has stated on early Saturday that there was no hard evidence to prove that Fethullah Gülen or...
Family of missing Syrian human rights activist says they feel unsafe in Turkey
The wife of Ahmed Katie, a Syrian human rights activist who went missing in İstanbul in late November, has announced that she and her...
AKP deputy chairman says he was deported from Germany
Ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) Deputy Chairman Mehdi Eker said on Thursday during a televised program that he was deported by German police from...
US House Foreign Affairs Committee approves resolution condemning Turkey over Washington violence
US House Foreign Affairs Committee approved a resolution condemning Turkey over the violence against peaceful protesters outside the Turkish Ambassador’s residence on May 16,...
69-year-old Turkish cartoonist to serve 14 months in prison for insulting Erdoğan
Turkish cartoonist Nuri Kurtcebe, 69, has been arrested after a jail sentence he was given on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was...
Detention warrants issued for 121 over alleged Gülen links
Detention warrants have been issued for 121 people in the central Turkish provinces of Kayseri and Konya over their alleged links to the Gülen...
12 people detained as they allegedly flee from Turkey to Greek island
Twelve people were detained while they were allegedly on their way to escape from Turkish government's massive post-coup witch hunt targeting the followers of...
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Turkey's campaign of transnational repression against critics abroad continued throughout 2025. Since a coup attempt in July 2016, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s long arm...
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During the year Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan continued to relentlessly pursue anyone with alleged links with the faith-based Gülen movement, which he described...
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Dehumanizing a Legacy: How Fethullah Gülen’s Death Triggered a Campaign of Hate Speech in...
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Sippenhaft, also known as...