Turkey jails disabled teacher after dismissing him and his wife from profession
A Denizli-based teacher, Raşit Uzantı, has been arrested days after he was dismissed from his profession along with her wife who used to work...
VIDEO — Erdoğan says they will not give Gülen sympathizers right to live
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Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has likened the sympathizers of Gülen movement to "cancer virus" again and has reiterated that they "will continue...
Jailed teacher’s kids with Down syndrome suffer huge in absence of him
M.O., a dismissed teacher and father of two kids with 92 and 98 percent disability ratings, has reportedly been jailed in an Antalya prison for...
Hunger Strike Of Prisoners In İzmir’s Şakran Prison On 48nd Day
The indefinite and irreversible hunger strike, that pro-Kurdish political prisoners at İzmir Aliağa Şakran Prison launched on February 15, 2016 for an end to...
CHP leader sparks debate with remarks calling July 15 a ‘controlled’ coup attempt
Leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on Monday attracted angry reactions from Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and...
Turkey stops publishing data on prison figures amid mass crackdown
Following 207 percent increase in the number of detainees without a conviction, Turkish government has stopped publishing data on the number of detainees and...
Kurdish politicians including HDP co-chair to go on hunger strike in protest of prison...
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chairperson Selahattin Demirtaş, HDP Hakkari deputy Abdullah Zeydan and Democratic Regions Party (DBP) Co-chairperson Sebahat Tuncel will go on...
Hunger strike of prisoners in İzmir’s Şakran prison on 42nd day
As the hunger strike launched in İzmir's Şakran Prison has reached to its 42nd day, the families have warned that the prisoners on hunger strike...
2 daughters of jailed police intel chief arrested over alleged links to Gülen movement
Fatma Saadet Yılmazer and Rabia Fitnat Yılmazer, daughters of jailed former police intelligence chief Ali Fuat Yılmazer, were arrested by an İstanbul court on...
Interior Ministry to pay TL707,000 compensation to Gezi victim’s family
An Eskişehir court has convicted Turkey’s Interior Ministry to pay a compensation of TL707,000 to the family of Ali İsmail Korkmaz, who was killed...
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