Turkey’s Erdoğan vows to pursue Gülen movement followers who ‘escaped the sword’
Amid an ongoing witch-hunt targeting the faith-based Gülen movement, Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday said he would not end his campaign...
Eighty women reportedly being tortured under custody by Turkish police at Mersin Provincial Security...
A total of 80 women, including high school and university students, who were detained have been severely tortured under police custody at the Mersin Provincial...
Kurdish media reports that Yezidis in Afrin afraid of a genocide by Turkish military
Members of the Yezidi (Ezidi) community in the Kurdish-run enclave of Afrin of northwest Syria told the news outlet Kurdistan24 on Saturday that they are concerned...
Turkish gov’t detains 18 people as military students, families teargassed during Ankara march
Turkish government has detained at least 18 people on Saturday after police intervened into a group of dismissed military academy students and their families...
Turkish gov’t detains 5-months pregnant woman as police fail to locate her husband
Turkish government has detained a 5-months pregnant Betül Düzenli in Samsun province after police failed to locate her husband as part an investigation in...
Family says they don’t know whereabout of jailed visually impaired Turkish journalist Arat
The family member of the visually impaired Turkish journalist Cüneyt Arat, who has been under arrest over his alleged ties to the Gülen movement...
Visually impaired Büyüközkan says in a letter that he cannot live in prison without...
Mehmet Büyüközkan, a visually impaired Turkish citizen, who was jailed on December 1, 2017 over his alleged links to the Gülen movement, has written a...
Court adjourns trial of Turkish journalists facing terror charges
An İstanbul court on Friday adjourned the trial of 28 journalists charged with membership in a terrorist organization to March 7-8 as the journalists...
Amnesty International: Dissents being ruthlessly suppressed by Turkish gov’t in 2017
A report released by Amnesty International on Thursday reveals that critical voices and dissent were ruthlessly suppressed in Turkey in 2017 and that a...
Journalist Ener: I was released but there are 6 children in my old prison...
Journalist Naciye Nur Ener Kılınç, who was released from jail on Tuesday and put under house arrest, said there are six children in the...
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