Boğaziçi University student commits suicide as dismissed father under arrest for 9 months

21-year-old university student Tuğçe Ölçer died after jumping off a balcony as she was depressed in the face of her father’s imprisonment, according to...

Turkish teacher under UN protection detained in Azerbaijan for deportation to Turkey, wife says

https://youtu.be/jDu5rWqE0IA Taci Şentürk, a Turkish teacher who was working in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku, was taken by police to an unknown place after UN...

HRW: 18 men affiliated with Gülen movement tortured, sentenced in unfair trial in Turkmenistan

A Turkmen court sentenced 18 men to up to 25 years in prison on February 8, 2017, in what appears to be a purge...

UN concerned over Greece’s alleged deportation of Turkish asylum seekers

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in a statement on Thursday that the agency is deeply concerned by continued reports about...

Jailed for months over alleged Gülen links, 62-year-old teacher dies of cancer in Turkish...

Arrested for raising donations on behalf of a Gülen movement-linked charity, 62-year-old religion and ethics teacher Hüseyin Pembe passed away after his battle with...

Turkey’s President Erdoğan, PM Yıldırım vow to annihilate followers of Gülen movement

https://youtu.be/8bJ0ciWD6Qk Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım have vowed on Wednesday evening to annihilate every each member of the Gülen movement...

Woman’s hair ripped from scalp by Turkish police while under detention

Bergül Varan, one of 14 individuals who were detained by police during a police raid on the Okmeydanı İdil Culture Center in İstanbul on...

US Congress unanimously condemns Turkey over Erdoğan bodyguard attack

The House of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution condemning Turkey over the beating of protesters by bodyguards of Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...

Detained woman covers 50 km twice a day to feed one-year old baby in...

Şule Akkaya, a primary school teacher who was detained on June 1, 2017 as part of an investigation into the Gülen group, reportedly covers...

Local NGOs urge Georgian gov’t to avoid returning Turkish teacher back home

Eight nongovernmental organizations have called on the Georgian government to refrain from returning a detained Turkish teacher Mustafa Emre Çabuk back home where “he...

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