Former university rector fighting cancer acquitted in Gülen-linked case
A Turkish court has found a former university rector innocent after he was subjected to legal harassment including detention and house arrest — all...
Gergerlioğlu raises questions about allegations of misconduct in Antalya prison
Human rights defender and Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu has posed a parliamentary question to the justice minister about allegations of...
Turkey’s ‘Saturday Mothers’ to meet for 700th time to seek justice for disappeared loved...
"The Saturday Mothers," a group demanding justice for loved ones who disappeared while in custody in Turkey in the ’90s, will gather for the...
Cancer patient woman seeks whereabouts of son abducted in Turkey’s capital
The mother of Ümit Horzum, a dismissed public servant who was reportedly abducted from his car in Ankara earlier this month, has asked for...
New warden pressuring inmates with arbitrary restrictions in İstanbul’s Silivri Prison, families claim
Kahraman Topaloğlu, the new warden of a notorious prison in İstanbul’s Silivri district, is imposing arbitrary restrictions in order to put psychological pressure on...
Jailed NASA scientist Gölge says he is being held hostage by Turkish government
Dr. Serkan Gölge, a NASA scientist who was sentenced to seven years, six months in prison in February due to his alleged links to...
Turkish agricultural engineer goes missing in Rize province
An agricultural engineer, Nuh Yiğit, has disappeared in the Black Sea province of Rize where he went earlier this week to look for a...
Turkey’s Erdoğan allegedly blackmailed Afghan gov’t for detention of Turkish teachers
The reactions against the abduction of three Turkish teachers, one Afghan teacher and one Turkish businessman who work at the Turkish Schools belonging to...
Arrest of Boğaziçi student over LGBT poster ‘lawful,’ Justice Ministry says
Turkey’s Justice Ministry has said the arrest of a student from Boğaziçi University on charges of inciting hatred in a poster depicting the Kaaba...
Turkish gov’t prosecutes 178 people over social media posts in a week
The Turkish government has investigated 274 social media accounts and taken legal action against 178 users over the last week (Aug. 27-Sept. 3) on...
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