Turkish physics teacher arrested by court due to objection by prosecutor, leaves her baby...
Derya Erkan, a physics teacher in Turkey's Black Sea province of Samsun, was arrested by a local court on Sunday for alleged membership in...
Turkish gov’t detains lawyer of arrested officers over alleged Gülen movement propaganda
Lawyer Kemal Uçar, known for his critical statements concerning July 15, 2016 coup attempt cases, has been detained as part of an investigation into...
Leftist activist visits grave of teacher tortured to death by Turkish police after coup
Veli Saçılık, a sociologist and leftist activist, has visited the grave of Gökhan Açıkkollu, a teacher who was tortured to death while in police...
17 detained as Turkish police intervene in Women’s Day celebrations in Ankara, Tekirdağ
Turkish police teams on Sunday detained 17 people involved in International Women’s Day celebrations in Ankara and Tekirdağ provinces.
Ten people were detained in front...
UN official says they continue to receive disturbing reports from Afrin
Panos Moumtzis, the United Nations regional humanitarian coordinator for the Syria crisis, has said they continue to receive disturbing reports out of Afrin of...
Almost 60,000 cases filed against Turkish Prime Ministry over state of emergency decrees
A total of 57,679 cases were filed against state of emergency decree-laws in 2017, the Prime Ministry Office’s activity report for the year has...
US calls on Turkey to cease human rights abuses, restore democracy
A member of the Delegation of the United States to the UN Human Rights Council in an address during the organization’s 37th session in...
When the last barricade falls: Remembering unlawful takeover of Turkey’s largest daily
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On March 4, 2016, exactly two years ago today, hundreds of riot police fired rubber bullets and gassed loyal readers of Turkey’s best-selling daily...
US Special Counsel Mueller investigating Kushner’s ties with Erdoğan’s family
Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of and special advisor to US President Donald Trump, is being investigated over his foreign links to a number of...
COMMENTARY — UAE sweep exposes Turkish intelligence links to jihadists in Syria
By Abdullah Bozkurt
The government of autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, which has aided, funded and armed jihadist groups in Syria for years, is troubled...
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