Juncker: Erdoğan wants EU to halt membership talks with Turkey
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Tuesday said Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan wants the EU to halt membership talks with his country.
Asking...
Pakistani human rights lawyer: We will go down to root of official lies in...
Asma Jilani Jahangir, renowned Pakistani human rights lawyer and social activist who co-founded and chaired the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and the lawyer...
İstanbul Police Chief calls on neighborhood guards to not hesitate to use weapons
İstanbul Police Chief Mustafa Çalışkan has called on the neighborhood guards to not hesitate to use their weapons when necessary, during a speech on...
Ankara governor bans protests to prevent support for hunger strikers
The Ankara Governor’s Office has announced that a ban has been imposed on all protest activities in the city for a period of one...
457 sick inmates in Turkish prisons are in critical condition: rights lawyer
There are 1,333 ailing inmates in Turkish prisons, 457 of whom are in critical condition, according to Turkey’s Human Rights Foundation (İHD), the Cumhuriyet...
Pro-Erdoğan columnist: Authorities should use child to make suspect father talk
Following the capture on Monday night of the suspected gunman who last week massacred 39 people at İstanbul’s Reina nightclub, a pro-government columnist, Cemil...
22,000 inmates sleep on jail floors in Turkey’s overcrowded prisons
At least 22,000 inmates are forced to sleep on jail floors as the number of prisoners reaches more than 224,000 for the first time...
Turkish government killed 1,190 PKK militants in 2017, report
A total of 1,190 militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) have been killed in 2017, according to information gathered from Turkish Interior...
Turkish interior minister visited mass torture site, personally witnessed abuse that continued after he...
Lt. Col. Tuncay Koçak, head of the organized crime unit at the Gendarmerie General Command, testified in court that he witnessed the visit of...
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...
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