Report: Turkish soldiers torture Kurdish shepherds in Şemdinli
Kurdish shepherds Nasır Taş and Ramazan Aktaş from a village in the Şemdinli district of Hakkari province were reportedly tortured by Turkish soldiers as...
US State Department highlights Turkish gov’t’s violations of religious rights in its 2017 report
The US State Department has highlighted the massive violations of religious freedom and rights by Turkish government across the country in 2017 in its...
Int’l tribunal rebukes Turkey’s Erdoğan for war crimes against his own people
One month before a presidential election in Turkey, an international tribunal has issued a stinging condemnation of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, charging him...
Turkish conscript in 5th day of military service given 14 life sentences on coup...
The İstanbul 26th High Criminal Court handed down aggravated life sentences to 41 defendants on Friday, among them Ahmet Özdemir, who was fulfilling his...
Islamist Turkish academic threatens people with civil war if Erdoğan loses elections
Erdoğanist Turkish academic Professor Ahmet Maranki has threatened the nation with civil war if the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its presidential...
Turkey’s lavish presidential palace gets special operations command amid economic collapse
The Turkish National Police Department has reportedly formed a Special Operations Command to serve at the lavish presidential palace in the capital of Ankara...
Turkish courts sentence 1,258 defendants to aggravated life over their alleged role in coup...
Turkish courts have sentenced a total of 1,808 defendants to lengthy prison terms, including aggravated life for 1,258 of them, in 163 out of...
Paralysed Turkish teacher held in prison for 20 months on coup charges
İsa Kara, a 54-year-old teacher who was fired from his job after a controversial coup attempt on July 15, 2016, has reportedly been kept in...
Turkish court rejects request for release of pro-Kurdish HDP presidential candidate Demirtaş
An Ankara high criminal court has rejected a request for the release of pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) presidential candidate Selahattin Demirtaş from jail...
Turkish politician Bekleviç: For the Kurds, life has almost stopped in Diyarbakır
“I was not expecting to be interrupted. The police were ignoring us, since they got orders from their superiors. But this time, apparently the...
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