Brother of police inspector found dead in quarantine cell points to ill-treatment and gross...
Harun Kabakçıoğlu, the brother of former police inspector Mustafa Kabakçıoğlu who was found dead on a chair in a quarantine cell in prison in...
6.986 scholars purged from Turkish universities in wake of July 15 coup attempt
The data has been collected by tukeypurge.com and web portal Freedom for Turkish Academics so far, shows 6.986 scholars have been purged from Turkish...
Turkish President Erdoğan and his German counterpart exchange barbs during state dinner
A state dinner for controversial Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Berlin became awkward late Friday.
In his speech, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier lamented the...
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...
Turkish gov’t refuses to allow pro-Kurdish HDP co-chairs visit Demirtaş in prison
An appeal filed by Sezai Temelli and Pervin Buldan, the co-chairs of Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), to visit HDP's jailed presidential candidate...
Turkish court convicts journalists for story on İstanbul prosecutor
A Turkish court has convicted three journalists from the print and online editions of the BirGün newspaper over a story about İstanbul’s chief public...
Wife of purged Turkish police officer recounts years of isolation, hardship
The wife of a police officer dismissed as part of Turkey’s post-2016 coup purge has described years of raising three children alone while facing...
‘If only US soldiers had been in the helicopter crash,’ says pro-gov’t journalist
A TV presenter working for the staunchly pro-government A Haber television station has expressed regret that it was Turkish military officers rather than American...
Jailed air force cadet not allowed to attend parents’ funeral
Murat Can Güney, 27, a former air force cadet sentenced to life imprisonment on coup charges, was not allowed to attend his parents’ funeral...
Kosovo PM Haradinaj visits wives of abducted Turkish teachers
Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj has paid a visit to the wives of six Turkish teachers who on March 29 were abducted and flown...
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