Turkey placed under money laundering watch
Global money-laundering watchdog the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) placed Turkey under increased monitoring on Thursday for shortcomings in combatting money laundering and terrorism...
French school in İstanbul closes for 2 days due to risk of terrorist attacks...
A French international school in Istanbul has announced that it will be closed on Thursday and Friday due to security measures, the Kronos news...
Main opposition CHP asks for parliamentary investigation into attack on party leader
Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has submitted a request to the parliamentary Research Commission concerning an attack on party leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu...
Boydak Holding executive convicted of Gülen links detained in İstanbul
An executive from the Kayseri-based Boydak Holding was detained in İstanbul on Tuesday to serve a sentence handed down on terrorism-related charges due to...
Turkish opposition İYİ Party’s Akşener calls for Demirtaş’s release
İYİ Party presidential candidate Meral Akşener on Tuesday called for the release from prison of Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) former leader Selahattin Demirtaş, during...
Severe post-coup tortures by Ali Türkşen, a founder of Turkey’s new party, exposed
New evidences of severe torture done by Ali Türkşen, a former military officer who had been convicted in the Ergenekon case, who is also among...
Ailing 85-year-old inmate freed following years of appeals by rights advocates
Halil Karakoç, an 85-year-old retired imam imprisoned over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, was released from Menemen Prison on Thursday after spending...
Woman journalist in Turkey traumatized by abuse and torture at police station
A veteran woman Turkish journalist who remained in nine month long pre-trial detention has been subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment at the police...
CoE’s torture committee calls for limiting number of inmates and promoting non-custodial measures
The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) has called on European countries to...
‘Not just coronavirus but injustice also kills,’ jailed journalist says
Büşra Erdal, a jailed journalist struggling with a judicial system that has deteriorated since a coup attempt in Turkey in 2016, said in a...
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