Turkey’s intelligence agency confirms abduction of more than 100 people with alleged links to...
Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) has confirmed in its yearly report that it conducted operations for the forcible return of more than 100 people...
Former teacher arrested on Gülen charges says heating cut off in cell despite cold...
A former teacher arrested for alleged links to the Gülen movement told his family during a phone call on Tuesday that the heating in...
Turkey’s top court denies release of former colonel suffering from advanced stage MS
Mustafa Özcan Çay, a former staff colonel convicted on coup charges, was denied release from prison by Turkey’s Constitutional Court despite his inability to...
Pro-Kurdish party defies ban on protests over removal of its mayor from office
Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) is holding protests in the southeastern city of Hakkari against the removal of the city’s...
Erdoğan invokes 2016 coup, causes concern about peaceful transition of power
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan sparked controversy on Friday, using Twitter to call for support in Sunday’s elections and comparing the situation to an...
Press freedom in Turkey deteriorated further in 2025 amid systematic pressure: report
Press freedom in Turkey continued to deteriorate in 2025 amid judicial harassment, censorship, violence and economic pressure, according to a report by leading international...
Slain HDP staffer’s father indicted on charges of spreading terrorist propaganda
The father of a young woman who was killed in an attack at the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) office in western Turkey last...
Turkey detains 32 people over alleged Gülen links
Turkish authorities on Thursday detained 32 people in two separate operations across multiple provinces as part of an ongoing crackdown on the faith-based Gülen...
ECtHR refers judgment on man convicted over Gülen links, criticized as unfair, to its...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has decided to refer the case of Şaban Yasak, convicted in Turkey of alleged links to the Gülen movement,...
Turkey detains 47 people on alleged Gülen links
Turkish police on Thursday detained 47 people for alleged links to the Gülen movement, a faith-based group accused by the government of “terrorist activities.”
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