Turkish court blocks access to Kurdish news agency for security reasons
A local court in eastern Turkey has blocked access to the Kurdish Mezopotamya news agency on the grounds that it poses a threat to...
Parents of 8-year-old boy suffering from epilepsy to serve sentences on Gülen link convictions
Another sick child has been left without parents as the mother and father of an 8-year-old boy suffering from epilepsy were arrested in Edirne...
Report: Moldova to grill secret service chiefs over expulsion of Turkish educators
Moldova's Prime Minister Pavel Filip and Speaker of Parliament Andrian Candu, both members of the ruling Democratic Party, on Thursday summoned the heads of the...
Kurdish man investigated for questioning ‘transferred’ voters on election day
Turkish prosecutors have launched an investigation into a Kurdish man who questioned the voters who were allegedly “transferred” to his city of residence in...
Turkish Twitter users demand authorities release father of young boy whose mother died in...
Turkish Twitter users demanded that authorities release the father of a 5-year-old boy after his mother, Gülsüm Coşar, 31, a former judge who fled...
Most Germans against Erdoğan’s speech to Turkish expats in country
A majority of Germans do not approve of the idea of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan delivering a speech to Turkish immigrants in the...
27 former police officers detained over alleged Gülen links in ‘ByLock investigation’
Turkish police detained 30 people in raids carried out in İzmir for alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, the TR724 news website reported on...
Turkish gov’t failed to carry out most actions in its human rights action plan
The Turkish government has failed to carry out most of the actions in the new human rights action plan that was announced by President...
Report: Capacity of Turkish civil society to deal with abuses in the country weakening
Front Line Defenders has stated in its annual report published on January 22, 2018 that "Following waves of arrest, human rights defenders, journalists and...
Ousted Kurdish mayor given lengthy prison sentence on terrorism charges
A Turkish court has handed down an almost 20-year prison sentence to a Kurdish mayor who was ousted from office earlier this week on terrorism-related charges,...
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Turkey's campaign of transnational repression against critics abroad continued throughout 2025. Since a coup attempt in July 2016, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s long arm...
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Sippenhaft, also known as...