Over 1,250 int’l scholars sign letter of solidarity for ‘harassed’ Turkish students
More than 1,250 renowned international academics from around the world have signed an open letter of support for the students from İstanbul’s prestigious Boğaziçi University...
COMMENTARY — The US State Department is still confused about Turkey
By Abdullah Bozkurt
The US State Department appears to have not fully grasped the gravity of the situation in Turkey in the face of a...
Top Greek court grants asylum to 2 Turkish military officers accused of coup links
Two Turkish military officers who fled to Greece following a controversial coup attempt on July 15, 2016 were granted political refugee status on Wednesday after...
Zeki Güven, jailed police intelligence chief, becomes latest suspicious death in a Turkish prison
Zeki Güven, the former intelligence chief of the Ankara Police Department who was arrested by a Turkish court in May as part of the...
İHD: 1,413 detained, 128 tortured in Kurdish-populated region of Turkey in first half of...
At least 128 prisoners were subjected to torture and ill-treatment in prisons and 1,413 people, including 44 children, were detained in mostly Kurdish populated provinces of...
Turkish professor jailed over alleged Gülen links passes away in prison
Prof. Dr. Sabri Çolak (69), a retired Turkish academic who was jailed over alleged links to the Gülen movement, died in prison on Friday...
Germany denies Turkey’s Erdoğan handed over list of alleged members of Gülen movement
German government sources have denied a statement made by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan claiming that he handed over a list of 136 individuals...
Jailed deputy of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish HDP goes on hunger strike
Leyla Güven, a jailed deputy of Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), announced on Wednesday that she had started a hunger strike, the Diken...
Human rights group reports 248 alleged Turkish torturers to German federal authorities
Human Rights Defenders (HRD) filed a criminal complaint with the Office of the German Federal Public Prosecutor (GBA) against 248 individuals including government agents...
Opposition deputy calls for release of jailed journalist diagnosed with stage 4 cancer
A jailed Turkish journalist was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, an opposition deputy reported, calling on the government to release him for proper treatment...
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