Kosovo bank reportedly freezes accounts of alleged followers of Gülen movement
As a new stage of persecution of Turkish nationals affiliated with the Gülen movement in line with the oppression of Turkish government led by...
Swedish journalist Joakim Medin sent to İstanbul’s notorious Silivri Prison
Swedish journalist Joakim Medin, detained in Turkey last week on terrorism-related allegations, was arrested on March 29 and transferred two days later to Silivri...
European rights court poses questions to Turkish gov’t on abysmal conditions of prisons
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has posed a series of questions to the Turkish government about the abysmal conditions of Turkish prisons...
Ankara police use excessive force to detain 30 in anti-gov’t protests over Erdoğan rival’s...
Police in Ankara detained at least 30 people on Friday, including students, a journalist and a lawyer, during a protest over the arrest of...
Turkish security forces killed a taxi driver over alleged PKK link
A forty-five year old taxi driver who had been working in Turkey’s southeastern province of Van lost his life on Thursday after police officers...
Pro-opposition TV channel suspended for 5 days: report
Halk TV, one of the few television stations in Turkey that is critical of the government, has been slapped with a five-day broadcasting ban...
Germany-based culture association chair barred from entering Turkey to attend father’s funeral
The head of a Germany-based cultural association focused on Kurdish and Alevi history says he was denied entry to Turkey and deported after being...
Turkish court rules suspension of student’s loan for attending Pride March illegal
The Ankara 23rd Administrative Court has ruled that the suspension of a state-provided student loan due to a student’s attendance at a Pride March...
Woman serving sentence with 3-month-old daughter conditionally released due to baby’s health
Emine Coşkun, who was arrested in İstanbul on Friday to serve a sentence for conviction of links to the Gülen movement and was being...
Turkish court jails all detained employees of pro-Kurdish Özgürlükçü Demokrasi newspaper
A Turkish court has arrested and put in pretrial detention all detained executives and employees of the pro-Kurdish Özgürlükçü Demokrasi newspaper and Gün Printing...
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