UN working group prioritizes case of doctoral student jailed in Turkey
The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions (WGAD) accepted as “urgent” a petition from Cihan Erdal, 32, a doctoral student at Canada's Carleton...
4,329 Turks applied for asylum in Germany in first 6 months of 2018
A total of 4,329 Turkish citizens applied for asylum in Germany in the first six months of this year, according to the country’s Interior...
Critically ill Kurdish prisoner dies after repeated pleas for sentence suspension
Mehmet Edip Taşar, a critically ill, 70-year-old Kurdish prisoner, died in a hospital on Tuesday after authorities repeatedly denied his release despite his worsening...
Complaints alleging police mistreatment increased by 22 percent last year
The number of people in Turkey who filed complaints alleging police mistreatment and brutality in 2022 increased by 22 percent in comparison to the...
Court releases extremist group members who attacked journalist in İstanbul
A Turkish court on Monday released two members of a far-right group who attacked journalist Levent Gültekin after he criticized Alparslan Türkeş, the founder...
Erdoğan’s spokesman says Turkey’s state of emergency to be lifted on July 18
The state of emergency imposed by Turkish government led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in the wake of a controversial coup attempt on July...
Businessman says extortion ring tied to justice minister used İstanbul drug probe to demand...
A Turkish businessman wanted in a growing İstanbul investigation into allegations of drug use, drug trafficking and prostitution says a network tied to Justice...
Turkish court hands down reduced sentence to another femicide perpetrator
A man who fatally shot his wife in December 2022 received a reduced prison sentence on the grounds that he had been “provoked” and...
Wife of purge victim dies, leaving 2 children to the care of relatives
Another family has fallen victim to Turkey’s post-coup purge as the wife of Yusuf Coşkun, a former teacher who was arrested on terrorism charges,...
COMMENTARY — Erdoğan inching closer to going nuclear
By Abdullah Bozkurt
On July 2, 2018, immediately after a questionable win in national and presidential elections, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan issued a law-decree...
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