Teacher under threat of deportation from Kosovo for torture in Turkey
A Turkish teacher named Uğur Toksoy was detained by Kosovo authorities just following a visit by Ankara Chief Prosecutor Yüksel Kocaman, to the land over...
Turkey witnesses yet another family tragedy under rule of emergency over alleged links to...
A Turkish woman in Turkey's Denizli province has killed his disabled son and committed suicide because of the unbearable stress and psychological pressures stem...
Abduction of 6 Turks in Kosovo point to Turkish embassies’ key role in illegal...
The recent abduction of six Turkish nationals who were affiliated with the Gülen movement in Kosovo has confirmed the key role of Turkish embassies...
Abducted Turkish citizen subjected to heavy torture at Ankara Organized Crime Bureau
Ümit Horzum, a Turkish citizen who was abducted from his car in Ankara on December 6, 2017 and handed over to the Ankara police last...
Report: Turkish man in police custody for 7 days loses mental health
A report by the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) shows that a Turkish man who was kept under police custody for 7 days in...
Turkish police officer dismissed from job due to alleged Gülen links dies by...
Former police officer Fatih Ç, who was dismissed by government decree under a state of emergency declared in the aftermath of a controversial coup...
Turkish woman returned to prison immediately after giving birth
Yasemin Baltacı, who was arrested over her alleged links to the Gülen movement just two weeks before the end of her pregnancy, was reportedly...
700th gathering of ‘Saturday Mothers’ marred by Turkish police violence, detentions
The Saturday Mothers, who gather every Saturday to bring attention to the cases of people who disappeared while in custody in the 1990s, would...
Turkish police once again stop ‘Saturday Mothers’ protest for disappeared people
Turkish riot police on Saturday stopped a group known as the Saturday Mothers, who have gathered every week since the 1980s to silently protest...
34 women killed by men across Turkey in October
Thirty-four women, including some as young as 12, were killed by men across Turkey in October, according to a report by the "We Will...
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