Washington police release video of 8 more Erdoğan bodyguards wanted for attack
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The Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department released a video on Saturday of eight more “persons of interest” believed to be in Turkey's autocratic President...
Amnesty expresses concern over increasing arbitrary pre-trial detention, torture in Turkey in UN Human...
Amnesty International (AI) has stated that the human rights organization is alarmed by the increasing use of arbitrary pre-trial detention, often in cases where there...
Turkish woman detained over alleged Gülen links along with 40-day-old baby while visiting jailed...
Zehra Elbir, a former court clerk who was earlier dismissed from her job in the government’s post-coup purge of state institutions, was detained only...
IFJ- EFJ call for urgent medical care for jailed Turkish journalist Çetinkaya
The European and International Federations of Journalists (EFJ-IFJ) has called on Turkish authorities to provide urgent medical care to Turkish journalist Tuncer Çetinkaya who...
Hunger strike of jailed educators Gülmen and Özakça enters 100th day in Turkish prison
UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has sent an urgent letter to the Turkish Foreign and Justice ministries concerning Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça...
Turkey’s Erdoğan slams US decision to charge his bodyguards for Washington brawl
Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan slammed a recent decision by US authorities to announce criminal charges against 12 members of Erdoğan’s security detail...
Pro-Erdoğan Turkish journalists call for assassination of Gülen followers abroad
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Journalists Cem Küçük and Fuat Uğur, who are staunch supporters of Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, made a call on Thursday for the...
Kurdish villagers who were severely tortured in Turkey turn out to be innocent
Three suspects who were severely tortured in the police station for their alleged involvement in mortar attack against police building in the town of...
Erdoğan’s bodyguards to be charged in attacks at Turkish ambassador’s DC residence
Criminal charges will be announced against 12 members of Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s security detail, accused by authorities of attacking protesters outside...
2 Turks arrested in US for attack outside Turkish ambassador’s residence in Washington D.C.
Two Turkish men resident in the United States have been arrested by US Marshals for their role in the beating of protesters outside the...
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