US Congressman: No credibility in charges by Turkey against Gülen

US Congressman Brad Sherman said on Thursday that charges against US-based Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen by the Turkish government and Turkey's autocratic President Recep...

Turkey tries to snatch Gülen supporters in Gabon

Turkey’s autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s long arm has reached to West African nation Gabon where four Turkish nationals who work at Hizmet-linked school...

Turkey’s top court rules in favor of purge victim and mother over ‘inhumane’ police...

The Constitutional Court has found rights violations in the treatment of prominent human rights activist Veli Saçılık and hismother, Kezban Saçılık, who were subjected...

UPDATE: Woman in pretrial detention gives birth, returns to prison with newborn baby

Şeyma Tekin, who has been in pretrial detention for about three months, gave birth last week at a hospital in Erzurum and returned to...

Pro-Kurdish DBP co-chair banned from prison sports after showing solidarity with hunger striker educators

Pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP) Co-chairperson Sebahat Tuncel, who was arrested in November 2016 on terror charges, was banned from sports activities in the...

Former colonel reveals photo of tortured soldiers in mosque during July 15 attempted coup

A former colonel has tweeted a photo of soldiers in a mosque with apparent signs of maltreatment and torture taken shortly after a coup...
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New ‘research center’ a dead end for purged diplomats reinstated by the courts

Career diplomats who were purged from the Foreign Ministry by the Turkish government and subsequently reinstated by the courts will be employed in a...

Turkey is no longer a country governed by the rule of law, says a...

In a new report unveiled today as part of continuing series that focus on human rights violations and arbitrariness in the application of the...

Survey shows 64 pct of Turks support restricting human rights to curb terror

Some 64 percent of Turkish citizens support “limiting” human rights if such measures help to curb terrorism, according to a survey conducted by the...

COMMENTARY — Erdoğan has ruined the lives of 1 million people in Turkey

By Abdullah Bozkurt The criminal investigations, prosecutions and trials in politically motivated cases on trumped-up terrorism and coup plotting charges have ruined the lives of...
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