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...

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”...

Detained woman covers 50 km twice a day to feed one-year old baby in...

Şule Akkaya, a primary school teacher who was detained on June 1, 2017 as part of an investigation into the Gülen group, reportedly covers...

Reliable sources: 6 abducted Turkish educators still kept in Kosovo

The reliable local sources in Kosovo informed Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) on Thursday that the detained 5 Turkish educators and an academician have...

Cancer survivor teacher under arrest in Turkey as disabled daughter shows anxiety

Muharrem Sağlar, a Bingöl-based former teacher who was retired after he survived colon cancer, has been under arrest for more than 5 months and...

Report: Turkish government keeps more than 70,000 students in prisons

Turkish Justice Ministry has announced that there are currently 70,000 students in prisons across the country. However, according to a report by Figen Atalay...

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...

Woman, child, accountant, groom are new victims of witch hunt under Turkey’s state of...

Turkey has become a stage of enormous human rights violations under a state of emergency declared by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP)...

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...

Elder brother of man who lost his wife in Athens last week detained in...

Mehmet Ali Uludağ, whose wife died Athens last week as he was waiting in Germany to reunite with his family, who had to flee...
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