Shots fired from both sides at Greek-Turkish border at asylum seekers fleeing Turkey’s crackdown
Border guards from Turkey and Greece on Thursday fired on a group of 11 asylum seekers fleeing a political crackdown by the Turkish government,...
8 arrested in Turkey for fomenting enmity, spreading disinformation on social media
An Ankara court has ordered the arrest of eight people including two journalists on charges of fomenting enmity and hatred and spreading disinformation on...
37 more alleged PKK members detained in connection to Ankara suicide bombing
Turkish security forces have detained 37 more people with alleged links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in connection to a suicide attack in Ankara...
Court in western Turkey sentences 4 activists over Boğaziçi protests
A Turkish court in İzmir has handed down varying prison sentences to four people due to their attendance at a gathering in support of...
ECtHR faults Turkey for pretrial detention of 45 people over Gülen links
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has faulted Turkey over the arrest and pretrial detention of 45 individuals in the aftermath of a...
Turkish commander sought for 1993 deadly arson against Kurds has been collecting retirement pension
Bülent Karaoğlu, a former regiment commander who has long been wanted for allegedly torching a house belonging to a Kurdish family and murdering nine...
Turkish academic on Stanford list of top scientists serving sentence on Gülen links
A Turkish endocrinology and metabolism expert who was included on Stanford University’s World’s Top 2% Scientists’ List in 2020, 2021 and 2022 is serving...
Turkey detains 15 people in operations targeting pro-Kurdish party, lawyers group
At least 15 people, including members of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (HEDEP) and the Association for the Freedom of Lawyers (ÖHD),...
Turkey again fails to implement GRECO anti-corruption recommendations
A report released on Thursday by the Group of States against Corruption (GRECO), the Council of Europe’s anti-corruption organization, has shown once again Turkey’s failure to...
Turkey drops investigation into Turkish-German journalist over tweets
Turkish prosecutors have decided to drop an investigation into Tuncay Özdamar, an editor for German public broadcaster Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln (WDR), which had led...
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