More heart-wrenching human tragedies reported under Erdoğan’s massive witch hunt targeting Gülen movement in...

Turkish media has reported more heart-wrenching human tragedies in Turkey under the oppressive rule of autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan who has been conducting a...

Turkey defies UN on abductions with cases of disappearances piling up

Defying the United Nations that slammed Turkey last year for enforced disappearances and urged the country’s leaders to offer guarantee of non-repetitions, Turkish government...

Prison population exceeds capacity of jails in Turkey, inmates sleep in shifts

Turkey's Justice Ministry Deputy Undersecretary Basri Bağcı has informed Parliament that Turkish prisons are currently 9 percent over capacity, saying that some inmates have...

Teacher, lawyer go missing in new wave of post-coup disappearances in Turkey’s capital

Fatih Kılıç, a teacher who was dismissed from his job under post-coup emergency rule, and lawyer Mustafa Özben have been missing for days, joining...

Mother of hunger striking teacher detained by police in Ankara

Nine protesters, including the mother of Semih Özakça, were detained in Ankara by police on Thursday during a solidarity protest with dismissed teacher Özakça...

Turkey’s official news agency refutes claims of Malaysian deputy PM and police chief over...

Turkish government's official news agency refutes the claims of Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Home Affairs Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and Malaysian police chief...

CHP’s Pavey says inmates subjected to inhuman treatment, torture in Turkey’s prisons

Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party's (CHP) deputy Şafak Pavey, who has shared her impressions from visits she paid to some well-known prisons in...

Turkey’s main opposition leader says expelled educators on hunger strike being forced to die

Leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has broken his silence about two educators who went on a hunger strike...

Mother of three arrested with baby as Turkish police fail to locate her husband

Fadime Danışman, a mother of three in the western province of İzmir, was arrested along with her 8-month-old baby after police failed to locate...

Bodyguards, fanatics of Turkey’s Erdoğan attack protesters in Washington

https://youtu.be/9GwUgSHz9sU Nine people were hurt and two were detained during an altercation in front of Turkey's Ambassador to US, Serdar Kılıç’s residence in Washington DC on...

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