Georgia rejects asylum application of Gülen school teacher
Georgian authorities have rejected an asylum application made by Turkish teacher Mustafa Emre Çabuk, who has been under a three-month extradition arrest since May...
Turkish pro-gov’t columnist: Killing Gülen supporters a religious obligation
Hüseyin Adalan, a columnist for the pro-government Milat and Yenisöz newspapers, has tweeted that killing people affiliated with Turkey’s Gülen movement is a “religious...
Veteran journalist Çetinkaya faces risk of dying in Turkish jail
“I don’t want to lose my dad” a message posted on Twitter by Rahime Gül Çetinkaya whose father, a veteran journalist, faces risk of...
Erdoğan says, detained human rights defenders gathered to plan follow up coup
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Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has accused a group of recently detained human rights defenders of plotting a follow up to July 15,...
Gülen’s Turkish sympathizer stabbed by pro-Erdoğan relative in Belgium
İbrahim Anaz, one of the executives at a Brussels-based association sympathetic to the Gülen movement, was stabbed by a family member who is a...
Turkey’s artists go on one-day hunger strike in support of hunger-striking educators
On the 120th day of a hunger strike launched by two educators, Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, who were fired from their jobs in...
61-year-old businessman dies from poor conditions in Turkey’s Elbistan prison
Kamil Ü., a 61-year-old businessman who has been under arrest for over 10 months due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, died on...
Prisoners reportedly threatened with death, exposed to torture in Turkey
Prisoners in two prisons in the southern Turkish province of Mersin have allegedly been facing maltreatment, physical violence and torture and being threatened with...
Turkish police await outside İstanbul hospital to detain woman who just gave birth
A group of police officers reportedly await outside Esenyurt Eslife Hospital in order to detain a woman who gave birth late on July 3,...
Turkey detains 9 human rights advocates including AI director
Police detained nine human rights advocates including Amnesty International Turkey Director İdil Eser at a hotel on Büyükada, one of İstanbul’s nine islands in...
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