Report: Turkish police torture 3 Gülen-linked detainees at Ankara counterterrorism unit
Three people who were detained by police in May for alleged links to the Gülen movement have been subjected to heavy torture and maltreatment...
Turkey expands corruption probe into opposition-run municipalities, detaining 11 in Istanbul
Turkish police on Wednesday detained 11 employees of Istanbul’s Bayrampaşa Municipality, in a growing corruption investigation that has already led to the arrest and...
Erdoğan denies rights reports, says not many journalists in prison
There are not as many journalists in Turkish jails as has been claimed by human rights advocates, and those journalists who are in prison...
Turkey’s top court fines gov’t for torture of Kurdish party chairman in police custody
Turkey’s top court has ruled in favor of İbrahim Halil Baran, chairman of the Kurdish Partiya Kurdistani (PAKURD), who submitted an individual application to...
Turkey’s Erdoğan argues with journalism student over press freedom question
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Thursday argued with a student of journalism who asked him a question about the state of freedom of...
Turkish authorities detain 151 more people over alleged Gülen links: minister
Turkish police have detained 151 people over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement in the last two weeks, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced...
Doctor imprisoned on Gülen charges dies of cancer after belated release
Ahmet Rıza Özkan, 42, a doctor imprisoned over his alleged links to the Gülen movement, died on Sunday of cancer after he was released...
Turkish gov’t threatens to evict elderly woman from home she’s leaving to charity
The Turkish Directorate General of Foundations has requested that Ayşe Özer, 80, either pay five years of accumulated rent or vacate her home, which...
Turkish court gives 10-month jail sentence to pro-Kurdish HDP’s former deputy Encü
Former pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Şırnak deputy Ferhat Encü has been handed down a 10-month jail sentence that was ultimately commuted to a...
Ankara prosecutors investigate alleged Turkey links in Epstein case: report
The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has opened a new investigation into claims of Turkey links in the Jeffrey Epstein case after a Turkish...
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