Turkey ranks 109th among 126 countries in rule of law index

According to the World Justice Project Rule of Law Index 2019, Turkey ranks 109th among 126 countries in adherence to the rule of law. The...

Former teacher jailed over Gülen links dies after heart attack in prison

Cafer Ongun, a former teacher serving a sentence over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, died on September 21 after suffering a heart...

Reuters: Erdoğan says court, not politicians, will decide fate of pastor Brunson

Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan told Reuters in an interview that the Turkish court, not politicians, will decide the fate of an American pastor whose...

Family blames prison conditions for death of former Turkish inmate after serving Gülen-related sentence

The family of a man who died of leukemia in 2024 after serving more than seven years in prison for alleged ties to the...

Academic deported by Malaysia in 2017 deprived of medication in prison

İsmet Özçelik, 60, a Turkish academic who was deported to Turkey by the Malaysian government in 2017 due to alleged links to the Gülen...

Turkey not invited to Biden’s upcoming Summit for Democracy

Turkey has not been invited to an online summit that will be hosted by US President Joe Biden Dec. 9-10, Turkish Minute reported, citing...

Members of European Parliament request investigation of rights violations perpetrated by Turkish-backed forces in...

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) last Tuesday called on the EP president to name a delegation to travel to northern Syria and gather...

Justice minister slams EU countries for not extraditing alleged Gülen followers

Turkey’s Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ has criticized some EU countries for what he said was their failure to extradite alleged followers of the faith-based...

Dismissed police officer disabled in workplace accident suffers both physically and psychologically in prison,...

Former police officer Mustafa Aydın, an inmate who lost six fingers in an industrial accident after he was fired from his law enforcement job...

Turkish gov’t prosecutes 263 people over social media posts in a week

The Turkish government has investigated 320 social media accounts and taken legal action against 263 users over the last week (Oct.1-Oct.8) on accusations of...
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