Elderly mother of Kurdish politician injured during police raid on home
The 90-year-old mother of a Kurdish mayor who was removed from office on terrorism charges has sustained injuries in a police raid on their...
Video footage shows man attacking woman for wearing shorts on İstanbul minibus
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A video footage, revealed by the Birgün daily on Wednesday, shows a man, Ercan Kızılateş, attacking a woman, Melisa Sağlam, on a minibus in...
His daughter pleads for help for jailed Turkish journalist Çetinkaya, citing serious health concerns
Rahime Gül Çetinkaya has begged for help for her father, veteran journalist Tuncer Çetinkaya, who faces the risk of death from serious health complications...
Jailed police chief Anadolu Atayün’s wife also jailed by Turkish government
Turkish government has jailed Birsen Atayün, the wife of jailed police chief Anadolu Atayün, on Monday, just days after her 15-year-old son and 17-year-old...
Turkish journalists and academics Alpay and Altan demand equal treatment before the law
Journalist and academic Şahin Alpay and Mehmet Altan, who were imprisoned by Turkish government under the rule of autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and...
US Human Rights Report: Torture and mistreatment in police custody increased in Turkey in...
Torture and mistreatment in police custody increased in Turkey in 2017 despite the presence of closed-circuit cameras installed by the Turkish government in 2012,...
Turkey’s purge-victim teacher passes away following heart attack
Kazım Ünlü, a former teacher who was removed from his job in the government’s post-coup purge of state institutions and an executive at Turkey’s...
İHD report: 68 children killed during clashes in eastern, southeastern Turkey in 2016
Sixty-eight children were killed, 150 detained, 40 arrested and six were tortured during clashesbetween Turkish security forces and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in...
Turkish colonel accusing Gülen of coup plotting says his testimony taken under torture
A Turkish colonel whose testimony was key to supporting the Turkish government’s argument that a failed military coup attempt on July 15, 2016 was...
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...
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