3 gendarmes suspended on accusations of killing young man who allegedly looted a quake...
Three gendarmes who are accused of beating Ahmet Güreşçi to death in custody after he and his brother Sabri allegedly looted a liquor store...
59 years-old author dies after allegedly falling from balcony as police raid home to...
Mustafa Hikmet Kayapalı, 59-year-old theologian and author targeted by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government under the rule of Turkey's autocratic President Recep...
Turkish gov’t ready to block ‘abnormal’ social media messages on election day
The Turkish government is preparing to block “abnormal” social media messages during elections on June 24, the Cumhuriyet daily reported on Friday.
According to the...
Kurdish historical figure’s family files complaint against far-right party leader for insult
The family of Sheikh Said, who led a Kurdish nationalist rebellion against the new Republic of Turkey in 1925 and was executed along 46...
Journalist Deniz Yücel targeted in email threats by right-wing extremists in Germany
German reporter Deniz Yücel, previously imprisoned in Turkey, has become the latest target for German right-wing extremists with a new wave of threatening emails,...
Pro-Kurdish deputy says Turkish prisons are becoming scenes of massacre as COVID-19 cases dramatically...
Züleyha Gülüm, a deputy from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), said Turkish prisons are turning into scenes of massacre as COVID-19 cases in...
Turkish diplomats in Cameroon spied on Erdoğan critics
Judicial documents have confirmed that critics of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan who had been profiled by Turkish diplomats in Cameroon were included in...
Turkey detains 60, including doctors and civil servants, over Gülen links
Turkish authorities on Tuesday detained 60 people, including civil servants and doctors, in two operations across multiple provinces as part of an ongoing crackdown...
Turkish Twitter users call on authorities to release mother of 11-year-old struggling with leukemia
Turkish Twitter users conducted a hashtag campaign yesterday calling on authorities to release Sabriye Dağdeviren, the mother of 11-year-old leukemia patient Hakan, who is...
Police officers accused of mistreatment resulting in suicide are convicted instead of ‘document forgery’
A Turkish court has handed down prison sentences to four police officers who were allegedly involved in the mistreatment of a young man while...
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