ECtHR obliges Turkey to pay 870,957 euros over HR violations in first 7 months...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) verdicts have obliged Turkey to pay 870,957 euros as compensation during the first 7 months of 2017...
Turkish-backed rebels torture, kill Kurdish man in Syria’s Afrin province: report
A Kurdish man succumbed to his injuries on Tuesday after he was attacked by Turkish-backed rebels at his home in the Afrin district of...
Turkish gov’t detains 853 people in one week over alleged links to Gülen movement
The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that 853 people were detained across Turkey during the week of March 26-April 2, bringing the total...
Tortured inmates investigated instead of prison guards: bar association
After being alerted to the torture of 20 inmates by guards at a correctional facility in Elazığ, the prison administration instead investigated the tortured...
Pro-Kurdish HDP questions use of drones by Turkish security forces in deadly Hakkari incident
The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has released a report on the killing of one civilian and the wounding of three others in a...
Turkish police intervene commemorations of Ankara massacre victims
People who lost their lives in the October 10 Ankara Massacre are remembered on the second anniversary of the incident. However, Turkish police attacked...
Dismissed police officer found dead in Turkey’s Konya province
Melikşah Kültür, a 41-year-old former police officer, who was dismissed as part of an administrative investigation launched against him, was found dead at an...
Turkish police officer dismissed from job due to alleged Gülen links dies by...
Former police officer Fatih Ç, who was dismissed by government decree under a state of emergency declared in the aftermath of a controversial coup...
Turkish woman in symbol photo: These red crosses mean that Alevis to be killed
Yüksel Kalın, whose photograph has been the symbol of deep anxiety of the Alevi community whose houses were marked with red crosses in Turkey's...
Turkish gov’t detains retired public servant for aiding families of post-coup victims
An İzmir man, identified as M.S., was detained by police on Friday for helping the overseas followers of the Gülen movement to raise money...
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