UNCHR spokesperson says they are investigating the death of 19 migrants on Turkish-Greek border
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) spokesperson Shabia Mantoo on Thursday said they are investigating the circumstances surrounding 19 migrants who froze to...
COMMENTARY – The murder of the Russian ambassador exposes Erdoğan’s jihadist friends
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Despite attempts by the Islamist government in Turkey to hush up the investigation into the assassination of Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov and...
Opposition MP submits parliamentary proposal to investigate the impact of poverty on minors in...
Ayşe Sibel Yankıömeroğlu from the Republican People’s Party (CHP) has submitted a parliamentary proposal to investigate the impact of poverty on minors in Turkey...
Turkey’s Council of Forensic Medicine says in controversial report ailing Kurdish politician fit to...
Turkey's Council of Forensic Medicine (ATK) on Tuesday presented to court its report on ailing Kurdish politician Aysel Tuğluk, saying she displayed symptoms of...
Gülen’s brother left to die in Turkish prison, deprived of medications
One of the brothers of Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, Kutbettin Gülen, who was arrested in October, is being deprived of medications despite suffering...
Journalists from pro-opposition TV station face 14 years over interview with court witness
Turkish prosecutors are seeking up to 14 years in prison for journalists and executives from the pro-opposition Halk TV station for airing an interview...
Woman arrested to serve sentence for conviction of Gülen links, leaving children to the...
A mother of three on Sunday was arrested to serve a sentence for conviction of links to the Gülen movement, leaving her children to...
Turkish gov’t critic arrested shortly after his release
A Turkish court on Saturday morning ordered the rearrest of Alparslan Kuytul, chairman of a religious foundation in Turkey, after the prosecutor appealed a...
İstanbul Bar officials face up to 12 years over statement on Kurdish journalists’ killing
İstanbul Bar Association President İbrahim Kaboğlu and 10 board members face criminal charges carrying prison sentences of up to 12 years over their reaction...
Prosecutor recommends up to 15 years in prison for teacher abducted from Kenya
A Turkish prosecutor has recommended that a teacher who was forcibly returned from Kenya to Turkey last year due to his affiliation with the...
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