Former Turkish director of Pak-Turk school, his family kidnapped from Lahore
Former director of Pak-Turk School, Mesut Kaçmaz, a Turkish national, has reportedly been kidnapped along with his family in the early hours of Wednesday...
Turkish police officer, suspended over alleged Gülen links, commits suicide
İbrahim Eski, a police officer who was suspended from his duty in the framework of an investigation carried out as part of Turkish government's...
Dismissed Turkish academic Gülmen taken into intensive care on her 202nd day of hunger...
Hunger striker academic Nuriye Gülmen, who has been jailed by Turkish government since May 23, 201, has been taken into intensive care on Monday...
JWF urges United Nations to form an international commission to investigate Turkey’s controversial coup...
The New York-based Journalists and Writers Foundation (JWF) in a statement released on Monday called on the United Nations to form an international commission...
8-year-old stripped of ‘Super Dad’ T-shirt by Turkish authorities during visit to jailed father
An 8-year-old boy was stripped of his T-shirt that bore the words ‘Super Dad’ during a visit to his father, under arrest for at...
Turkish gov’t detains 970 people over alleged links to Gülen movement in a week
Turkish government has detained at least 970 people as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt campaign targeting the alleged members of the Gülen...
Turkish PM Yıldırım on coup trials: I would hang them in one month
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has said he would hang the suspects of a botched coup attempt in July 2016 in one month, complaining...
EP’s Panzeri: EU should use all financial, commercial instruments to push Turkey to end...
Pier Antonio Panzeri, Chair of the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI), has stated that European Union (EU) should use all the financial and...
Turkish FM Çavuşoğlu visits Erdoğanist thugs in US prison
Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu visited Erdoğanist thugs Eyüp Yıldırım and Sinan Narin who were arrested by an American court for their role in...
CPJ calls on Turkey to find murderers of Syrian journalist, mother
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) called on the Turkish government to find those responsible for the murder of Syrian-American journalist Halla Barakat and...
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