Turkish police wait at hospital to detain new mother over alleged Gülen links
Turkish police are waiting at Adana Avrupa Hospital to detain Elif Açıkgöz, who just gave birth by cesarean section, over alleged links to the...
German Chancellor Merkel says Turkey abuses Interpol warrants
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday criticized Turkey’s use of an Interpol arrest warrant to detain a German writer Doğan Akhanlı in Spain, telling...
Turkish gov’t arrests dismissed pro-Kurdish mayor, 1-year-old son as mother battered during operation
Lice Municipality’s former co-mayor Rezan Zuğurlı was arrested along with her 1-year-old son while her mother Firuze Zuğurlı was battered by police officers during...
Report: 10 Turkish generals including Gen. Aksakallı resign
Ten generals including Special Forces Commander Lt. Gen. Zekai Aksakallı, one of the key figures who plays suspicious role during a controversial coup attempt...
Lawyers: Assassination accusations in Turkey’s Erdoğanist media aim to slander Gülen movement
The lawyers of US-based Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen said on Saturday that news reports in the pro-government media accusing Gülen movement followers of...
Police officer purged by Turkish government commits suicide in İstanbul house
Durmuş Ali Çetin, a former police officer who was dismissed from his job by government decree 10 months ago, was found dead at his...
Turkish police wait to detain Feyza Yaylacı shortly after her delivery of a premature...
Turkish police have been reportedly waiting in front of a door of a patient's room at Memorial Hospital in Ankara, where Feyza Yaylacı has...
Turkey arrests jailed journalist Karayeğen’s daughter, aged 23, over “terror” charges
Zeliha Esra Karayeğen, the 23-year-old daughter of jailed journalist İbrahim Karayeğen was put in pre-trial arrest on charge of membership to a terrorist organization...
Erdoğan tells Turks in Germany not to vote for ‘anti-Turkish parties’, Berlin reacts harshly
Amid tensions between Berlin and Ankara, Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has told Turks living in Germany not to vote for parties treating...
Erdoğan’s most favorite columnist: Vatican uses ‘evicted jinns in intelligence services’
Radical Islamist Yeni Akit daily's columnist Abdurrahman Dilipak, who is knwon as one of the most favorite columnist of Turkey's autocratic President and Justice...
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Human Rights in Turkey: 2022 in Review
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This report highlights the most important developments in the area of human rights in Turkey during the year 2022. Authoritarianism continued to gain ground...
Pushbacks of Turkish asylum seekers from Greece to Turkey: Violation of the principle of...
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This report focuses on how illegal pushbacks by Greek authorities have devastating consequences on Turkish asylum seekers upon their return to Turkey.
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