Turkey’s intel agency renditioned Gülenist businessman from Tajikistan: state-run media
Koray Vural, a Turkish businessman who had gone missing in Tajikistan in mid-September and was being sought by Turkey over his links to the...
‘Visually approving of terrorism’ among reasons for fines on 3 Turkish TV stations
Turkey’s broadcasting watchdog has imposed a fine on three TV stations critical of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) for reasons that include...
Police violence against members of anti-gov’t religious group sparks outrage
Turkish police in the southern province of Adana sparked outrage when they employed batons, plastic bullets and pepper spray in what many said was...
Cumhuriyet journalists appear in Turkish court 267 days after their arrest
Trial of 17 suspects, including Cumhuriyet daily journalists and executives who were arrested in November 2016, began at an İstanbul court on Monday 267...
Turkey detains main opposition party mayor over alleged links to PKK
Ahmet Özer, the mayor of İstanbul’s Esenyurt district from Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), was detained at his home in an early...
Turkish gov’t abducted teacher in Kenya over relationship to Gülen, wife claims
The wife of a teacher who is a nephew of US-based Muslim preacher Fethullah Gülen has claimed that her husband was abducted by operatives...
Iranian activist in Turkish custody faces risk of deportation after 45 days of detention
Mohammad Abbaspour, a political activist from southwestern Iran who sought asylum in Turkey, has been detained by Turkish security forces for 45 days and...
Dismissed academic, killed in construction site accident, reinstated to post
Mustafa Çamaş, a prominent bioengineering professor fired from his job by a government decree in the aftermath of a coup attempt in Turkey in...
CoE urges Turkey to adapt new anti-terror measures to ECHR
The Council of Europe (CoE) has urged Turkey to adapt its new legislation on demonstrations, public meetings and counterterrorism measures to the European Convention...
393 women in Turkey murdered in domestic violence since January 2017
Three hundred ninety-three women in Turkey were killed in incidents of domestic violence over the last 19 months, according to the Interior Ministry.
Opposition deputy...
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