Banker, jailed unlawfully, faces health troubles in Turkish prison
A bank manager who had been working for Turkey’s one-time largest Islamic lender Bank Asya risks deaths over serious complications of his health in...
Woman, 5-month-old son under custody after visiting husband in Turkish prison
Derya Gökten, the wife of an arrestee in Bursa prison, was detained along with her 5-month-old son after visiting her husband in jail. According...
Key coup suspect general says military chief failed to tell putschists to halt coup...
Former Turkish Air Forces Commander and member of the Supreme Military Council Akın Öztürk, a key suspect in a trial concerning a controversial coup...
Coup suspects to wear identical brown uniforms in court, Turkish ministry says
Turkey’s Justice Ministry said on Wednesday that all suspects in ongoing trials concerning a controversial coup attempt last year are going to wear identical...
Turkey prosecutor drops probe into torture-led death under police custody
Public prosecutor in Turkey decided to drop investigation into a death of teacher who had been subjected to torture during a detention in police...
CSOs protest ECtHR’s refusal of Turkish hunger strikers’ release request
Turkish civil society organizations (CSOs) including human rights defenders, lawyers and health organizations have protested a rejection by the European Court of Human Rights’s...
Turkish police assault cellist in İstanbul, call her ‘terrorist’
Turkish police assaulted cellist Gülşah Erol on Wednesday and called her a “terrorist,” near the entrance of the Kadıköy metro station in İstanbul, the...
Another police chief jailed over alleged Gülen links dies in Turkish prison
Fifty-two-year-old Ahmet Tatar, a police chief who was arrested as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement in Osmaniye province, has died in...
Report: Turkish gov’t systematically violated 12 fundamental rights during emergency rule
Sezgin Tanrıkulu, a deputy from Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), has announced that Turkish government has systematically violated 12 fundamental human rights...
17 Turkish nationals ask for asylum in Greece, say their lives in danger
A total of 17 Turkish nationals who illegally entered Greece through Rhodes Island have asked for asylum saying their lives were in danger in...
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