Turkish police break man’s arm while detaining 47 protesters in Ankara
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Turkish police on Sunday detained 47 people including 22 women in Ankara protesting the arrest of Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, two dismissed educators...
Turkey reportedly blacklists 680 German companies suspected of supporting terrorism
Turkey has blacklisted more than 680 German companies it suspects of supporting terrorism, a German security source told Reuters on Friday. According to Reuters,...
Wife accuses Turkey’s intel of abducting her husband, files a complaint with top court
Emine Özben whose husband was abducted in Ankara two months ago took her case to the Turkish Constitutional Court (AYM) by filing a complaint...
Turkish ultra-nationalists hurl stones at İstanbul synagogue
A group of ultra-nationalists affiliated with the Alperen Hearths, an offshoot of the Turkish nationalist movement called the Grey Wolves (Ülkü Ocakları), gathered in...
Turkey’s arrest of six human rights defenders leads to more tension with Germany
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PM Yıldırım admits did not know identity of putschists when he blamed Gülen movement
A year after a failed coup on July 15, 2016, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said he did not know who had attempted to...
Gülen admits meeting key suspect in Turkey coup plot, denies coup involvement
Turkish-Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen has admitted meeting Adil Öksüz, who is accused by the Turkish government of being the key figure in Turkey’s July...
Amnesty International: Time for Western governments to tell Turkey ‘red lines crossed’
Amnesty International (AI) Director of Europe and Central Asia John Dalhuisen urged British and Western governments to end their silence over Turkey’s slide into...
ISI voices concern over Turkish government’s arbitrary deprivation of nationality of its citizens
The Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion (ISI) has released a policy paper to raise its grave concern over recent steps taken by the Turkish government towards...
Turkey extends state of emergency for 4th time
The Turkish Parliament has extended for three more months a state of emergency declared in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt in Turkey...
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