Turkish courts order continuation of all jailed journalists’ imprisonments
İstanbul 13th High Criminal Court in the notorious Silivri Prison compound and the 26th Heavy Penal Court at İstanbul’s Çağlayan courthouse have ordered the...
Turkish court releases jailed hunger-striking educator Özakça on probation
An Ankara court on Friday has ordered the release of jailed hunger-striking educator Semih Özakça on the condition that he wears an electronic bracelet. However, the court...
Three Turkish teachers allegedly affiliated with Gülen movement detained in Afghanistan
Three Turkish and one Afghan teachers were detained by Afghan intelligence officials on Tuesday on the request of Turkish government under the rule of...
Zabit Kişi, Turkish citizen abducted in Kazakhstan, jailed in Turkey after more than 5...
Zabit Kişi, who was one of the two Turkish nationals who were abducted from a plane in Kazakhstan in mid-September 2017, was formally arrested...
Turkish prosecutors find doctor who took own life after firing not a ByLock user...
Turkish prosecutors have found that a doctor who was removed from his job at a public hospital in İzmir in 2017 due to alleged...
HDP deputy Paylan asks Turkish Parliament to recognise Armenian Genocide
Turkish-Armenian parliamentarian Garo Paylan from the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) has announced that he has submitted a legislative proposal for the recognition of the...
Turkey’s İHD warns health of 4 prisoners on hunger strike deteriorating
The Prison Commission of Turkey's Human Rights Association's (İHD) İstanbul Branch has issued a warning on the condition of political prisoners Ergin Aktaş, Dicle...
Human rights bodies: 5,268 people tortured under Turkey’s state of emergency
A total of 5,268 people, including 133 children, were reportedly subjected to torture in Turkish prisons, under police custody, outside of detention facilities, during...
Turkey’s MİT abducts Veysel Akçay, general director of schools affiliated with Gülen movement, in...
Veysel Akçay, the general director of schools affiliated with the Gülen movement in Mongolia, was abducted by agents of Turkey's notorious National Intelligence Organisation...
Jailed Turkish journalist Aydın: I am about to drown, I want a little oxygen
Turkish journalist Hüseyin Aydın, who has been held in İstanbul's notorious Silivri Prison for more than two years, has expressed his feelings in a...
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