Dozens more detained in anti-Gülen witch hunt across Turkey
Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for a total of 85 people across 23 provinces due to their alleged links to the faith-based Gülen...
Kurdish political prisoners’ hunger strike ends on its 64th day
Hunger strike, which has been defined as "indefinite and irreversible," that pro-Kurdish political prisoners launched on February 15, 2017 for an end to the...
More academics, teachers, charity staff detained over alleged Gülen links
Tens of academics, teachers, university staff and aid organization personnel were detained by police in Turkey over alleged links with Gülen movement.
At least 18...
Third suspicious disappearance: Teacher dismissed in post-coup crackdown not seen for 14 days
Cengiz Usta, a 44-year-old teacher who was dismissed from his post as part of the Turkish government’s post-coup purge of state-institutions, has been missing since...
Turkey’s Interior Ministry: 1,542 detained over ‘terror charges’ in past week
A total of 651 people were detained in operations targeting the Gülen movement over the past week, according to a statement from Turkey’s Interior Ministry...
Turkey extends emergency rule for another three months
Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government extended emergency rule for another three months during a National Security Council (MGK) meeting chaired by...
Torture from Freedom reports Turkey’s use of torture to suppress political activity
Although an attempted coup in July 15, 2016 has highlighted Turkey’s place in the world as a torturing state, ill-treatment in Turkish prisons has...
Turkey is no longer a country governed by the rule of law, says a...
In a new report unveiled today as part of continuing series that focus on human rights violations and arbitrariness in the application of the...
Erdoğan admits being behind arrests of thousands in post-coup purge
Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government and himself are behind the arrests of thousands of...
COMMENTARY — Jihadists who decapitated priests in Syria got help from Turkey’s intelligence
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) had willingly and deliberately helped known Jihadists of Russian nationals who decapitated Aleppo’s Greek Orthodox Bishop Boulos...
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Sippenhaft, also known as...