Turkey’s Erdoğan says he laughed at ICC extradition demand for al-Bashir
Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said he laughed at an International Criminal Court (ICC) demand for the extradition of Sudanese President Omar...
Jailed cancer patient dies under detention due to maltreatment, ignorance in Turkey
One more death under suspicious conditions and because of maltreatment in detention under the rule of emergency declared in the aftermath of a controversial...
Survey: 17 pct of people, detained or jailed in Turkey after coup attempt, think...
A survey conducted by The Rights and Justice Platform's the State of Emergency (OHAL) Research and Reporting Committee has showed that 16,7 percent of those who...
Turkish prosecutors say 11,500 mistakenly investigated for ByLock use
The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Wednesday stated that 11,480 GSM users were found to have been involuntarily directed to mobile phone application...
Turkish gov’t detained 62,402 people over alleged links to Gülen movement in 2017
Turkish security forces detained a total of 62,402 people in 2017 over alleged links to the Gülen movement, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported...
Turkish PM: No changes will be made to decree on impunity to civilians
The government decree granting immunity to civilians who take part in suppressing coup attempts will not be changed, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has...
Turkish gov’t detains 54 academics, university personnel over alleged links to Gülen movement
Turkish government has issued detention warrants on Wednesday for 171 academics and former personnel of the now-defunct Fatih University over their alleged links to...
Jailed Turkish journalist Hidayet Karaca reportedly put in solitary confinement
Hidayet Karaca, a jailed Turkish journalist and the former chairman of the now-closed Samanyolu Broadcasting Group, has reportedly been put into solitary confinement following...
COMMENTARY — Erdoğan gov’t encourages vigilante violence in Turkey
By Abdullah Bozkurt
The Turkish government has not only disregarded major criticism directed at the most controversial article of state of emergency decrees, which provides...
Turkish gov’t investigates 39,000 social media users, detains over 3,000 of them in 2017
Turkish government has investigated more than 39,000 social media users and detained more than 3,000 social media users and Turkish courts have arrested over...
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