Number of complaints over Turkish government’s post-coup dismissals hits 57,340
The number of complaints filed over Turkish government's massive post-coup dismissals has hit 57,340 in August, according to the reports in Turkish media.
More than 150,000...
Turkish coup suspect says he acted thinking putsch was within chain of command
Army Aviation Command Attack Helicopter Squadron Commander Lt. Col. Özcan Karacan, who was recently detained in Antalya over his alleged role in a failed coup...
US refuses Turkey permission to use Pakistani pilots for training Turkish F-16 pilots
The US has rejected a Turkish proposal to use Pakistani pilots for training Turkish pilots for F-16 fighters, the Cumhuriyet daily reported on Monday,...
Maximum pretrial detention in Turkey increased from 5 to 7 years
As thousands of people imprisoned under the country’s sweeping anti-terror laws have been languishing in jail for years awaiting trial, a new decree issued...
İHD: 2,722 killed in Turkey’s Southeast since end of Kurdish settlement process in July...
A report released by the Human Rights Association (İHD) has revealed that 2,722 people have been killed in violence in Turkey’s Southeast since the...
Turkish Deputy PM Bozdağ says German Foreign Minister Gabriel has ‘inferiority complex’
Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdağ has targeted Germany’s foreign minister Sigmar Gabirel after he offered damning criticism of Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip...
A nurse, mother of 7-month-old, commits suicide after purged by gov’t decree in Turkey
Sevgi Balcı, mother of a seven-month-old baby and a nurse who was fired by a government decree in October 2016, committed suicide by hanging...
Jailed police chief Anadolu Atayün’s wife detained by Turkish government
Turkish government has detained Birsen Atayün, the wife of jailed police chief Anadolu Atayün, just days after her 15-year-old son and 17-year-old daughter were...
Turkey releases 3 thousand more convicts to open up space in prisons for witch...
By means of new decrees issued by Turkish government on Friday, three thousand more convicts will be released immediately on probation unless they are...
Infamous Turkish intelligence tied to autocratic President Erdoğan by new gov’t decree
The infamous Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MİT) was tied to the presidency with two new decrees (KHK) that Turkey issued on Friday morning, enabled...
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