Police use force against academics protesting purges at universities
Turkish police on Friday used pressurized water and pepper spray to disperse a group of people including academics who gathered in front of Ankara...
Erdoğan signals reinstatement of death penalty after referendum
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has revealed plans to reinstate the death penalty in Turkey following a public referendum that will be held on...
Eight more academics detained amidst protests against post-coup purges
Eight academicians including Professor Mehmet Ali Malas, dean of the faculty of medicine at Katip Çelebi University in İzmir, were detained on Thursday over...
New gov’t decree paves way for sale of companies seized from critics
A new government decree issued on Thursday makes possible the sale of companies seized by the state as part of an ongoing witch hunt...
CHUV report: People sheltering in Cizre basement first killed, then burned
A report by scientists from the Vaudois University Hospital Center (CHUV) in Switzerland showed that residents who took shelter in the basement of a...
Pro-Kurdish HDP deputy Leyla Zana relaesed by Diyarbakır court
The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Ağrı deputy Leyla Zana, who is a prominent figure in Kurdish politics, was released by a Diyarbakır court...
Two more women who just gave birth detained over links to Gülen movement
Filiz Y., a 30-year-old woman who gave birth at Mersin City Hospital last night, has been detained over alleged links to the Gülen movement,...
Turkey dismisses another 330 academics, brings total to 7,316
A total of 330 academics were dismissed in a new government decree, issued on Tuesday, bringing the total number of academics who lost their...
12-year-old Furkan denied departure from Turkey for treatment in Cuba dies of cancer
A 12-year-old child has died of brain cancer several months after Turkish border agents seized his and his parents’ passports at İstanbul Atatürk Airport,...
Jailed police intelligence chief: Erdoğan ordered us to investigate Oda TV
Former police intelligence chief Ali Fuat Yılmazer said in a hearing on Tuesday that it was then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan who ordered the...
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