Education Ministry asks purged teachers to prove ‘innocence’ to return to posts
Turkey’s Education Ministry has asked teachers who have been removed from their posts through controversial government decrees to prove their ‘innocence’ in order to...
792 detained, 147 arrested in anti-Gülen operations in one week
A total of 792 people were detained, with 147 of them put under arrest, in operations targeting the faith-based Gülen movement over the past...
Pro-Kurdish HDP’s 70 members, administrators detained in İstanbul
Seventy members and administrators from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) were detained in İstanbul on Monday following raids in their homes.
After İstanbul prosecutors...
EU describes massive purge of Turkish academics as ‘worrying’
The EU Commission has reacted to the dismissal of more than 300 academics from Turkish universities by a government decree issued last week, describing...
Mother with infant jailed while trying to visit imprisoned husband
Ayfer Yavuz, whose husband imprisoned as part of government witch hunt against faith-based Gülen movement following a failed coup attempt in last July, was...
Report: Families in Turkey live in fear and isolation as Erdoğan leads a witch...
The Guardian, a British newspaper, has covered the witch hunt conducted by Erdoğan regime in Turkey against critical segments of the society and wrote...
Dozens of Turkish teachers in Pakistan under UN protection after visa extensions turned down
Turkish employees of the Pak-Turk Schools, along with their families, have been in the United Nations’ (UN) protection after Pakistani authorities denied them an...
Police detain 28 doctors, nurses and midwives over coup charges
A total of 28 health workers were detained as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, which the government accuses of masterminding the...
The case of journalist Parıldak: Guilty until proven innocent
A 26-year-old journalist, Ayşenur Parıldak, who was arrested on August 11, 2016, has finally appeared in the court for the first hearing last Thursday....
Erdoğan says naysayers in referendum side with July 15 coup plotters
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said those who will vote against a constitutional reform package which among other things brings an executive presidency in...
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Pushbacks of Turkish asylum seekers from Greece to Turkey: Violation of the principle of...
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