Wife of veteran police who lost hand, eyes in bomb attack under custody over...
Özlem Konakçı, the wife of former bomb disposal expert Bilal Konakçı, was also reportedly detained over her alleged links to the Gülen movement, which...
Amnesty International to send observers to Saturday Mothers’ sit-in on Sept. 1
Amnesty International (AI) stated on Thursday that it would send observers on September 1 to a sit-in organized by the Saturday Mothers, whose meetings...
UN body asks Turkey to compensate businessman arrested, tortured in post-coup crackdown
The United Nations’ Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD), which works under UN Human Rights Council, has called on Turkish government to compensate a...
Ümit Horzum becomes latest victim of abductions targeting alleged members of Gülen movement in...
Ümit Horzum, a Turkish citizen who was dismissed from his duty at the Turkish Accreditation Agency (TURKAK) by a government decree on August 2016...
Turkish court releases police officer who killed 6 and 7 year-old Yıldırım brothers in...
A Turkish court has released a police officer who drove an armored vehicle as patrolling in Karşıyaka neighborhood in southeastern province Şırnak’s Silopi district...
Turkish gov’t intensifies mass detentions targeting alleged members of Gülen movement
Turkish government has intensified its massive post-coup witch hunt campaign targeting the alleged members of the Gülen movement and detained dozens of people across...
Turkish police adopt ISIS-like torture tactics, see women and girls as sex slaves: report
The terrible accounts of the torture of people in police custody at an unofficial detention site in Turkey, related by multiple victims in court...
Turkey’s purge-victim teacher passes away following heart attack
Kazım Ünlü, a former teacher who was removed from his job in the government’s post-coup purge of state institutions and an executive at Turkey’s...
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...
Eurostat: 14,640 Turkish citizens claimed asylum in EU in 2017
A total of 14,640 Turkish nationals claimed asylum in the European Union countries last year, according to data compiled by Eurostat.
According to statistics released by Eurostat...
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