Mother with son with leukemia faces threats, insults due to alleged Gülen links

A public prosecutor has asked a mother who was arrested due to her alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement to become an informant...

Inmates subjected to maltreatment, torture at Antalya Prison, relatives say

Inmates incarcerated in Antalya Prison are being subjected to various types of torture and maltreatment by the prison authorities, according to a report on...

Jailed journalist denied access to case file on account of saving trees

Turkish prison officials refused to provide a print copy of indictment and evidentiary case file to a veteran journalist who has been jailed in...

Body of man wanted for alleged Gülen links found in Maritsa River

The dead body of Murat Zümre, a computer engineer at the 15th Missile Base Command in İstanbul who was dismissed from his post due...

Police chief who was purged over Gülen links beaten on street in Samsun

https://youtu.be/lGjvqWTM7e8 G.E., a former police chief in Samsun who was dismissed over alleged links to the Gülen movement following a failed coup attempt last year,...

Academic Gülmen and friends detained by police, tortured in detention

Dismissed with government's executive decrees academicians and teacher Nuriye Gülmen, Semih Özakça and Acun Karadağ, who have been staging a protest for 120 days...

UN report tells some 2,000 dead since truce with PKK collapse in Turkey

UN investigators found some 2,000 people were killed in 18 months of fighting, and accuse Turkish forces of serious human rights violations. The killings,...

Woman detained while showing newborn baby to jailed husband

S.Ö., whose husband was jailed a few weeks before she gave birth to a baby, was detained in Sakarya on March 8 when she...

Exiled Turkish lawyers blast Turkish Bar Association for its silence

An advocacy group set up by exiled Turkish lawyers has decried the silence of Turkish Bar Association (TBB) in the face of massive crackdown...

Post-coup victim judge succumbs to cancer after release from prison

Mehmet Tosun, a 29-year-old Turkish judge who was expelled from his job and subsequently arrested over alleged involvement in a July 15 coup attempt...

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