Turkish pro-gov’t columnist: Killing Gülen supporters a religious obligation
Hüseyin Adalan, a columnist for the pro-government Milat and Yenisöz newspapers, has tweeted that killing people affiliated with Turkey’s Gülen movement is a “religious...
Kosovo under Turkish gov’t pressure detains 5 Turkish educators over alleged links to Gülen...
Kosovo police detained five Turkish educators who are employees of the Mehmet Akif schools in Kosovo and an academic early Thursday morning over alleged...
Report: Turkish government keeps more than 70,000 students in prisons
Turkish Justice Ministry has announced that there are currently 70,000 students in prisons across the country. However, according to a report by Figen Atalay...
Lawyers association: Imprisoned Gülen followers subject to rape, nail extraction, object insertion
People imprisoned as part of a government crackdown on the Gülen movement are being systematically tortured in the most barbaric ways including rape, removal...
Detained woman covers 50 km twice a day to feed one-year old baby in...
Şule Akkaya, a primary school teacher who was detained on June 1, 2017 as part of an investigation into the Gülen group, reportedly covers...
Cancer survivor teacher under arrest in Turkey as disabled daughter shows anxiety
Muharrem Sağlar, a Bingöl-based former teacher who was retired after he survived colon cancer, has been under arrest for more than 5 months and...
Turkish teacher dismissed from job over alleged links to Gülen movement commits suicide
Thirty-eight-year-old teacher Mehmet Koşar, who was dismissed from his job by a government decree issued under a state of emergency declared in the aftermath...
Jailed teacher had to send baby away due to poor conditions in Turkish prison
Turkish teacher Ayşe Çelik, who was jailed with her baby earlier this month on terror charges because she had said, “Don’t let children die”...
Turkey defies UN on abductions with cases of disappearances piling up
Defying the United Nations that slammed Turkey last year for enforced disappearances and urged the country’s leaders to offer guarantee of non-repetitions, Turkish government...
Turkish purge victims Gülmen and Özakça end hunger strike, vow to take fight to...
Educators Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça ended their 324-day-long hunger strike after the State of Emergency Procedures Investigation Commission rejected their requests to return...
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