Okumuş becomes 2nd victim of abductions targeting members of Gülen movement in a week...
Murat Okumuş, a 40-year-old accountant who was a director at the government-closed Şifa University Hospital in İzmir province, was abducted. It has been second...
Turkish man who attacked woman for wearing shorts to be tried without arrest
An İstanbul court on Thursday decided for the trial of Ercan Kızılateş without arrest who attacked a woman named Melisa Sağlam on a minibus...
Critics whisked away from streets in Turkey, detained in secret locations, faced torture
A new study has revealed that Turkish government has resumed illegal abductions and enforced disappearances that were believed to be a thing of the...
German police warn Erdoğan’s guards not to attack to protesters
Amid crisis between Turkey and US over Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s guards’ attacking protesters in Washington D.C. last month, Hamburg police have...
23-years-old teacher kidnapped and killed by outlawed PKK in Turkey
A 23-year-old teacher in Turkey's southeastern Şanlıurfa province was reportedly killed by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Tunceli province, the PKK announce...
Turkish intellectuals call for attention to academics on hunger strike
A group of intellectuals and artists have called on Turkish authorities to meet the demands of Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, two dismissed educators...
Daughter: Death of Turkish writer who fell from balcony during police raid suspicious
Şeyma Ölmez, the daughter of Turkish writer Mustafa Hikmet Kayapalı who passed away after allegedly falling from a three-storey-building in the Balıkesir province in May...
Detained teacher severely tortured, his wife harrassed by Turkish police
Once an inspiring educator to his pupils, a Bartın teacher was detained with her hands cuffed behind back as a perceived enemy of the...
Video footage shows man attacking woman for wearing shorts on İstanbul minibus
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A video footage, revealed by the Birgün daily on Wednesday, shows a man, Ercan Kızılateş, attacking a woman, Melisa Sağlam, on a minibus in...
CHP deputy Tanrıkulu not allowed to make prison visits
Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) İstanbul deputy Sezgin Tanrıkulu has not been permitted to visit prisons since his last visit almost a...
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