Police waits to detain a housewife in Turkey shortly after her delivery due to...
Turkish police has been reportedly waiting in front of the door of a hospital room where a housewife, who has just given a birth,...
280 inmates committ suicide in Turkey’s prisons in last 5 years
At least 280 inmates committed suicide in Turkish prisons in last five years, according to the official data shared by Turkey's Justice Ministry as...
Turkish gov’t transfers detained woman, newborn baby to prison 1,291 km away from home
Detained in the southern province of Isparta as part of a post-coup witch hunt campaign targeting the alleged members of the Gülen movement, a...
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
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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
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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...
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