Turkish police detain İYİ Party’s head of communications over links to Gülen movement

Kerim Çoraklık, head of the communications team of Turkey's opposition İYİ Party has been detained on charges of making the propaganda of the faith...

Kosovo under Turkish gov’t pressure detains 5 Turkish educators over alleged links to Gülen...

Kosovo police detained five Turkish educators who are employees of the Mehmet Akif schools in Kosovo and an academic early Thursday morning over alleged...

Turkish gov’t issues detention warrants for 129 police officers, detains at least 120 people...

Turkish government has issued detention warrants on Thursday for 129 police officers who were dismissed by government decrees under the rule of emergency declared...
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Turkish gov’t issues detention warrants for 67 union executives, dozens of military officers over...

Turkish government has issued detention warrants for 67 union executives and dozens of military officers as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt campaign...

Turkish Consulate in Warsaw seized passport of a news portal founder

Turkey’s General Consulate in Warsaw has seized the passport of a Turkish national in Poland as part of increasing pattern of arbitrary refusal of...

Turkey defies UN on abductions with cases of disappearances piling up

Defying the United Nations that slammed Turkey last year for enforced disappearances and urged the country’s leaders to offer guarantee of non-repetitions, Turkish government...

British Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee: Gülen not responsible for the July 15 coup attempt

The British Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee (FCO) has stated on early Saturday that there was no hard evidence to prove that Fethullah Gülen or...

Jailed teacher had to send baby away due to poor conditions in Turkish prison

Turkish teacher Ayşe Çelik, who was jailed with her baby earlier this month on terror charges because she had said, “Don’t let children die”...

Turkey’s ruling AKP votes down probe on Paradise Papers at Parliament

Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) voted down a parliamentary motion to investigate revelations in recent leaks of offshore financial dealings by high level...

Turkish gov’t to take a child back from foster family for 10 years over...

Turkish government has added a new cruelty to its numerous persecutions targeting the alleged members of the Gülen movement on Monday. According to an...

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