Academic arrested by Turkish gov’t over alleged Gülen links denied prescribed medication for 11...
İbrahim Yakut, an associate professor who was arrested in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt in Turkey in July 2016 due to his...
Turkish Parliament strips HDP deputies Yıldırım and Ayhan of parliamentary status
The Turkish Parliament on Tuesday stripped pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputies Ahmet Yıldırım and İbrahim Ayhan of their parliamentary status over court rulings against...
Czech court releases former PYD leader Muslim despite Turkey’s extradition request
A Czech court on Tuesday released Salih Muslim, the former co-chairperson of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), who was detained and subsequently...
UN expert Melzer says deeply concerned by rise in torture allegations in Turkey
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer has expressed serious concerns about the rising allegations of torture and other ill treatment in Turkish police...
Turkish teacher Gökhan Açıkkollu, tortured to death under police custody, reinstated to his job...
It has been revealed that Turkish teacher Gökhan Açıkkollu, who was tortured to death under police custody in the wake of a controversial military coup attempt...
Presenter of Turkey’s Erdoğanist Akit TV vows to start killing civilians in İstabul’s secular...
Ahmet Keser, the presenter for “Gün Başlıyor,” broadcast on the radical Islamist Akit TV channel, which is a staunch supporter of Turkey's Islamist and...
COMMENTARY — Erdoğan threatens the world with exporting jihadists
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Turkey’s Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has ratcheted up his usual anti-Western diatribe, taking it a step further to threatening Europe in...
Turkish police to journalist: If you don’t speak, we’ll throw you off balcony
Turkish police have reportedly raided the house of journalist Buğrahan Aydoğan in Çorlu district of Tekirdağ province on Sunday night for the second time to...
Turkish physics teacher detained over Gülen links, baby left to neighbor’s care
Derya Erkan, a physics teacher in the Black Sea province of Samsun, was detained on Monday for alleged membership in the Gülen movement and...
Turkey’s Erdoğanist media targets Dutch deputies, threatens them for recognizing Armenian genocide
Turkey's pro-government media has been targeting five Dutch parliamentarians with a Turkish background, calling them traitors after the Tweede Kamer officially recognized the Armenian genocide,...
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