Erdoğan says identical uniforms for coup suspects soon in Turkey

Despite reactions that it would be against human rights, Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday said identical uniforms designed for jailed suspects...

Police officer purged by Turkish government commits suicide in İstanbul house

Durmuş Ali Çetin, a former police officer who was dismissed from his job by government decree 10 months ago, was found dead at his...

Turkish police wait to detain Feyza Yaylacı shortly after her delivery of a premature...

Turkish police have been reportedly waiting in front of a door of a patient's room at Memorial Hospital in Ankara, where Feyza Yaylacı has...

Turkey arrests jailed journalist Karayeğen’s daughter, aged 23, over “terror” charges

Zeliha Esra Karayeğen, the 23-year-old daughter of jailed journalist İbrahim Karayeğen was put in pre-trial arrest on charge of membership to a terrorist organization...

Jailed police chief Atayün’s two children detained by Turkish police

Two children of Anadolu Atayün, a former legendary police chief who was jailed in wake of the corruption and bribery scandals on December 17-25,...

TİHV: Rights of 1,8 million people violated under curfews by Turkish gov’t

Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) has stated that at least 252 officially confirmed round-the-clock and open-ended curfews have violated the rights of 1,809,000...

Jailed woman exposes brutal treatments in Turkey’s prison

A 9-month pregnant woman who has been given a six-month suspended prison sentence has revealed the systematic patterns of maltreatment and repression in Turkish...

Minister son-in-law of Turkey’s Erdoğan: I would strangle Gülen supporters wherever I see them

https://youtu.be/1OJZU71gWB0 Addressing university students being sent abroad on scholarships, autocratic President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s son-in-law and Energy and Natural Resources Minister Berat Albayrak...

Prisoners battered to blindness in ‘sponged rooms’ in Turkey’s infamous jail

Three inmates in İstanbul’s infamous Silivri Prison — Umut Gündüz Altın, Murat Yüksel and Musa Kurt — have been battered by more than 30...

HDP deputy claims Turkish coup suspect made to wear ‘hero’ T-shirt to introduce identical...

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) parliamentary group deputy chairman Ahmet Yıldırım said on Thursday that the government made jailed noncommissioned officer Gökhan Güçlü, a...

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