Turkish gov’t imprisons 6 female lawyers over alleged links to Gülen movement
Turkish government has imprisoned 6 female lawyers in Erzurum province on Tuesday over their alleged links to the Gülen movement.
It was reported that a...
Freedom House: Turkish gov’t detains tens of thousands arbitrarily over alleged use of ByLock
The US-based think tank Freedom House, which has listed Turkey in his newly released report among the countries in which Internet freedoms are restricted...
European court rejects 25,000 Turkish applicants since controversial coup attempt
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has allegedly rejected around 25,000 applications from Turkish nationals related to persecutions by Turkish government following a controversial coup...
Turkish gov’t to take a child back from foster family for 10 years over...
Turkish government has added a new cruelty to its numerous persecutions targeting the alleged members of the Gülen movement on Monday. According to an...
COMMENTARY — Turkish probe revealed Erdoğan sent arms to jihadists in Syria
By Abdullah Bozkurt
The cover-up in the transfer of heavy arms to terror organizations in Syria by the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was...
UN experts call for dropping of terror charges against leading human rights defenders
A group of United Nations experts including Annalisa Ciampi, Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Michel Forst, Special...
SCF sounds the alarm on jailed journalists in Turkey at Mänskliga Rättighetsdagarna
Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) urged Turkish government to release jailed journalists, drop the fabricated charges and stop the crackdown on independent, critical and...
Turkish lieutenant colonel recants testimony, says drugged and tortured
Lt. Col. Levent Türkkan, aide-de-camp of Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar, on Monday recanted his previous testimony during a hearing at the...
Turkish gov’t detains 586 in one week over alleged links to Gülen movement
The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that 586 people have been detained in one week due to alleged links to the Gülen movement,...
Turkish court rules Altan brothers, Ilıcak, others to remain in jail
An İstanbul court on Monday ruled that journalists Ahmet Altan, Mehmet Altan, Nazlı Ilıcak and Fevzi Yazıcı, who were arrested in September 2016 on...
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