Erdoğan says Turkey not bound by European court’s ruling to release Demirtaş
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Tuesday said that Turkey is not bound by verdicts of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) following the...
About 40 percent of Syrian children unable to go to school in Turkey
At least 40 percent of 1,623,000 Syrian children, who are refugees, are not going to school in Turkey, according to a report by Turkish...
Turkish government’s witch hunt targets military personnel, jurists over alleged Gülen links
The Turkish government on Thursday detained 15 military personnel and eight civilians, including six lawyers, across Turkey as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt...
Reuters: Turkish court throws out case against former WSJ journalist Albayrak
A Turkish court has thrown out the conviction of a former Wall Street Journal reporter, the newspaper said, annulling a verdict sentencing her to...
2 Syrians tortured by Turkish gendarmes after attempt to cross border: report
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said on Tuesday that it obtained a video showing two men with cuts and bruises on their bodies,...
Turkey’s ruling AKP’s spokesperson announces Saturday Mothers vigils prohibited in İstanbul
A group of mothers and other family members of people forcibly disappeared in Turkey since the 1980 coup have been banned from holding their...
Exiled Turkish journalist harassed by Turkish embassy, security officials at Johannesburg event
A Turkish journalist who is currently living in exile in South Africa was subjected to harassment and physical intervention by the Turkish embassy and...
Turkey returns opposition mayor and former city planner to prison despite serious health concerns
A Turkish court has returned two high-profile detainees — opposition mayor of Istanbul’s Beylikdüzü district Mehmet Murat Çalık and former Istanbul city planner Tayfun...
Former deputy chief justice of Turkey’s Constitutional Court given 11 years
Former deputy chief justice of Turkey’s Constitutional Court Alparslan Altan has been handed down a prison sentence of 11 years, three months on charges...
44 inmates in İstanbul’s Silivri Prison test positive for COVID-19
Forty-four inmates in İstanbul’s Silivri Prison have tested positive for COVID-19, the chief public prosecutor’s office announced on Friday, the Gazete Duvar news website...
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