Family pleads with Turkish authorities to release critically ill inmate
The wife of a critically ill inmate has pleaded with Turkish authorities for the immediate release of her husband to seek proper medical treatment,...
Erdoğan rival calls on Turks to mark anniversary of his detention in big rally...
Jailed İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, the main political rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, called on supporters to gather in central İstanbul on Wednesday...
Young adults drive Turkey’s emigration surge as economic hardship deepens
Young adults are leading the growing wave of emigration from Turkey as economic hardship worsens, youth unemployment reaches record highs and optimism about the...
Turkey detains 20 more over alleged Gülen links, raising total to 267 for the...
Turkish police detained 20 people, including 14 police officers, on Thursday in the fourth operation this week targeting individuals with alleged links to the...
Turkish family in Albania risk facing torture in new abuse case of Interpol by...
Another abuse of Interpol mechanisms by Turkey, this time reported in Albania, has stranded a Turkish family in the country as they try to...
Turkish press groups decry detentions of journalists
Turkish press organizations have condemned the recent detentions of multiple journalists and a media translator as part of an investigation led by prosecutors in...
Amnesty urges Turkey to end judicial crackdown on main opposition CHP
Amnesty International on Tuesday urged Turkish authorities to end a crackdown on the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), describing an appeals court decision...
Opposition MP on EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee prevented from leaving Turkey due to travel...
Zeynel Özen, a lawmaker from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and a member of the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) who holds both...
Turkish gov’t conducts 38,725 operations against alleged members of Gülen movement in a year
The Turkish government conducted a total of 38,725 operations in the space of one year against alleged members of the Gülen movement as part...
Turkey’s Erdoğan calls for expanded witch hunt against Gülen followers
Having purged more than 150,000 people from state jobs and jailed over 50,000 due to alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, Turkey's autocratic...
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