German FM Maas: Turkey must free prisoners to mend ties with EU

Turkey cannot revive its strained relationship with the European Union (EU) until it frees German citizens it has detained, Germany’s foreign minister said on...

Mayor of CHP stronghold İzmir quits party over court-ordered leadership change

The mayor of the western Turkish province of İzmir, long seen as the main opposition Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) strongest electoral stronghold, resigned from...

Video shows Malaysian police detained Turkish expats at Turkey’s request

https://turkeypurge.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Untitled-1.mp4 A recent video recording submitted to Turkey Purge shows that Malaysia was detaining three Turks in the country at the request of Turkish government. Malay police...

Health of cancer patient convicted on terrorism charges deteriorates

The health of Ayşe Özdoğan, 34, who suffers from a rare form of cancer and is facing imprisonment on a terrorism conviction, has seriously...

Turkish court releases journalist Uğur Sağındık but rules for house arrest

A Turkish court on Wednesday decided to release journalist Uğur Sağındık, an editor for now-closed Zaman daily, from pretrial detention but ruled that he be...

PACE names Turkey among top perpetrators of transnational repression

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has listed Turkey among the world’s top 10 perpetrators of transnational repression, while an accompanying...

Retiree charged with insulting Erdoğan for protesting low pensions

A retiree who wore a T-shirt at a Justice and Development Party (AKP) rally that protested low pensions was detained and subsequently charged on...

Syrian worker fired for union membership

A Syrian factory worker in Turkey's southeastern Gaziantep province has been protesting his dismissal for membership in a labor union in front of the...

Pro-Erdoğan Turkish troll says ‘the best Gülenist is a dead Gülenist’

Amid an ongoing witch-hunt conducted by the government targeting people sympathetic to Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, one of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s well-known...

Opposition, artists, rights groups accuse gov’t of criminalizing satire after comedian’s arrest

Rights groups, opposition leaders and figures from Turkey’s arts scene rallied behind comedian Deniz Göktaş on Friday, accusing authorities of using pretrial detention to...

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