Turkey ordered detention of 137 people over alleged Gülen links in a week
Turkish prosecutors have over the past week ordered the detention of 137 people due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, according to local...
Turkey’s top court rejects demand for opening of Hagia Sophia to Muslim prayer
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has rejected an application which claimed that failing to open the country’s historic Hagia Sophia museum to Muslim prayer violates freedom...
Jailed Oda TV journalist released at first hearing of trial: report
Müyesser Yıldız, the Ankara news editor for the OdaTV online news website who was arrested in June on charges of revealing state secrets, was...
Prison authorities deny essential medication to university student arrested in Istanbul protests
A university student arrested for joining nationwide protests over the detention and subsequent arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu has claimed that prison authorities...
Over 200 detained in nationwide Turkish operations targeting alleged Gülen supporters
Turkish authorities have detained at least 218 people in three separate operations across the country in the last four days, targeting individuals accused of...
Syrians say they’re continuously blamed for economic crises in Turkey but can barely get...
Syrian migrants have said in comments to the Evrensel daily that they were continuously blamed for rising unemployment and economic crises in Turkey, but...
Motherless children left to care of relatives after father sent to prison over Gülen...
Two motherless children aged 7 and 2 were left to the care of their relatives in different cities after their father was sent to...
Book tells story of teacher who died in Turkish prison due to lack of...
A recently published book tells the story of teacher Halime Gülsu, who died in a Turkish prison in 2018 due to deprivation of a...
Pro-Erdoğan daily targets yet another Turkish journalist living in exile
A Turkish journalist living in exile in Sweden who’s on a list of political dissidents whose extradition is demanded by Turkey has been targeted...
HRW: Erdoğan’s visit an opportunity for Germany to address human rights concerns in Turkey
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Chancellor Angela Merkel should use the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s upcoming visit as an opportunity to raise numerous human...
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