Turkey defies UN on abductions with cases of disappearances piling up

Defying the United Nations that slammed Turkey last year for enforced disappearances and urged the country’s leaders to offer guarantee of non-repetitions, Turkish government...

Turkish purge victims Gülmen and Özakça end hunger strike, vow to take fight to...

Educators Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça ended their 324-day-long hunger strike after the State of Emergency Procedures Investigation Commission rejected their requests to return...

Turkish teacher under UN protection detained in Azerbaijan for deportation to Turkey, wife says

https://youtu.be/jDu5rWqE0IA Taci Şentürk, a Turkish teacher who was working in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku, was taken by police to an unknown place after UN...

32 more Turks including academics and doctors seek asylum in Greece

Thirty-two Turkish citizens including academics, teachers and doctors have applied for asylum in Greece after being detained by Greek Maritime Security forces on an...

Turkish gov’t keeps pregnant teacher, husband under police custody for 7 days

The Turkish government has kept a Sinop teacher who is reportedly pregnant with her second child, as well as her husband, in police custody...
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Detention warrants issued for 70 Turkish military personnel over alleged Gülen links

The Konya Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Thursday issued detention warrants for 70 former and active duty military members of varying ranks as part...

Turkish goverment says 560 children kept in prisons along with mothers across Turkey

560 children, aged between 0 to 6, are being held in Turkish prisons along with their mothers, according to data given by Turkey's Justice...

Turkish police disturb mourning family and friends of deceased academic Özcerit

Turkish police have reportedly continued to disturb the mourning family members, relatives and friends of the deceased academic Ahmet Turan Özcerit on Tuesday following the...

IHD: Systematic abuses surge in Turkey with 50.000 rights violations

Human Rights Association (İHD) Diyarbakır provincial branch head Raci Bilici said that 2016 was a disastrous year for human rights abuses in Turkey since...

Turkish teacher Ayşe Çelik released from Diyarbakır Prison

Turkish teacher Ayşe Çelik, who was jailed with her baby earlier this month on terror charges because she had said, “Don’t let children die”...

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