Family under UN protection detained in Malaysia, faces deportation to Turkey
Arif Komiş, a Turkish teacher holding a UNHCR refugee card, and his family were detained on Wednesday in Malaysia, his friends reported on social...
274 minors gave birth in two years at hospital in Turkey’s Antalya province
A total of 274 minors aged between 14 and 17 gave birth at the Kepez Public Hospital in Turkey’s southern province of Antalya, Turkish...
Belgian-Turkish law student barred from leaving Turkey due to Facebook posts
A 27-year-old Belgian-Turkish law student is being held in Turkey where she was reportedly arrested more than a month ago over a series of...
Woman calls for release of stage 4 cancer patient husband from jail
The wife of 42-year-old teacher Özgür Doğan, who was arrested due to his alleged links to the Gülen movement, has called for the immediate...
Turkish diplomats trigger criminal investigations into children, spouses of critics
Intelligence reports created by Turkish diplomatic missions as part of a large-scale spying campaign on critics and opponents of the Turkish government living outside...
Purge victim denied release 3 times dies of cancer
Tacettin Toprak, a 36-year-old civil servant who was dismissed by the Turkish government following a coup attempt on July 15, 2016, died on Saturday,...
Canada grants asylum to Turkish nationals under UN protection in Mongolia
Eight Turkish citizens whose passports were revoked by the Turkish government and whose legal residence in Mongolia ceased at the end of July traveled...
Government-appointed trustee dissolves Van City Council
Mehmet Emin Bilmez, appointed by Turkey’s Interior Ministry as a trustee in place of the mayor of Van, who was removed by the government...
Tortured inmates investigated instead of prison guards: bar association
After being alerted to the torture of 20 inmates by guards at a correctional facility in Elazığ, the prison administration instead investigated the tortured...
Turkey dismisses 3 Kurdish mayors, detains hundreds on terrorism charges
The Turkish government on Monday appointed trustees to three municipalities in the predominantly Kurdish Southeast of Turkey, dismissing the newly elected mayors of Van, Mardin...
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