Turkish asylum seeker died from torture prior to pushback from Greece: forensics report
Turkey’s Council of Forensic Medicine (ATK) has revealed the cause of death of a Turkish asylum seeker who crossed the Aegean Sea and was...
Students detained in ongoing Boğaziçi protests reveal torture, threats by Turkish police: report
“We were detained around 4:30 p.m. and forced to wait in a bus until 5 a.m. The environment itself was torture. We were...
Turkish election board moves ballot boxes in Kurdish provinces, prompting fears of fraud
Citing “security reasons,” Turkey’s Supreme Election Board (YSK) decided on Sunday to move ballot boxes in at least 19 provinces from which the pro-Kurdish...
Erdoğan’s strongest rival says he can still win presidency from prison: report
İstanbul’s jailed mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s most prominent political challenger, has said his imprisonment will not prevent him from defeating the...
Jailed journalist Ünal: By arresting journalists you cannot save yourselves from Dec. 17-25 graft...
Former Ankara Representative of now-closed Zaman daily, Mustafa Ünal, who was standing trial after 419 days in pretrial detention, targeted the the corrupt government...
Parliament speaker rejects request for inquiry into torture allegations, claiming objectionable language in complaint
Speaker of the Turkish Parliament Mustafa Şentop returned a letter to human rights activist and lawmaker Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, claiming that it contained “vulgar...
Turkish gov’t launches probe into German prosecutor over financial support to family of a...
The Turkish government has launched an investigation into a German prosecutor and financial support given by the European Association of Judges (EAJ) to the family...
Turkish woman jailed over Gülen links describes repeated sexual abuse in custody
A woman who was jailed in Turkey over alleged ties to the faith-based Gülen movement claims she was subjected to repeated strip-searches and sexual...
İstanbul mayor’s bus pelted during election campaign
Angry protesters on Sunday pelted the İstanbul mayor’s campaign bus with stones while he was touring Turkey’s conservative heartland ahead of next weekend’s general...
Jailed Kurdish leader denounces killing of PKK hostages, blames gov’t for botched rescue attempt
Jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş has denounced the killing of 13 Turkish nationals held hostage by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), blaming the...
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