US court drops charges against 4 Turks in attack on Washington demonstrators
A US judge has dismissed charges against four of 19 defendants charged with attacking protesters outside the Turkish ambassador’s residence in Washington, D.C., during...
Turkish gov’t puts columnist Türköne in solitary confinement after media designer Yazıcı
After jailed media designer Fevzi Yazıcı, was put a solitary confinement for not accepting the fake document made with photoshop, veteran journalist and political scientist...
Amid grief over jailed father, 12-year-old Turkish boy not responding to cancer treatment
Muhammed Eray Özkul, the 12-year-old son of the Zonguldak-based former police officer Ender Özkul who was jailed in the aftermath of the controversial coup...
Cancer patient woman seeks whereabouts of son abducted in Turkey’s capital
The mother of Ümit Horzum, a dismissed public servant who was reportedly abducted from his car in Ankara earlier this month, has asked for...
Turkish gov’t keeps woman with heavy Alzheimer’s in jail for 15 months over witness’...
Turkish government has jailed Fatma Bektaş, who has many illnesses such as heavy Alzheimer's, cardiac and herniated disc, pending trial for 15 months. Bektaş,...
Turkish gov’t obliges alleged terror suspects, convicts in Turkey to wear Guantanamo-like single-type uniforms
Turkish government has issued a new post-coup executive decree (KHK) under the rule of emergency to oblige all suspects and convicts under arrest in...
Turkish gov’t sends teacher with baby to prison in 10 days for allegedly ‘praising...
Ayşe Çelik, a Turkish teacher who was sentenced to one year and three months in prison for allegedly “praising terrorism and a terrorist organization”...
Turkish authorities reportedly exhume corpses of 267 Kurdish militants in Garzan cemetery
Turkish authorities have reportedly exhumed 267 corpses, which were belong to Kurdish militants who were mostly killed as they fought against radical Islamist terror group...
EU reacts to maltreatment of renowned media designer Fevzi Yazıcı by Turkish authorities
The European Union (EU) has reacted to the maltreatment of Fevzi Yazıcı, who is jailed art director of now-closed Zaman daily, on Thursday and...
Araç’s mother: ‘My son didn’t commit suicide, he was killed by police’
Azize Araç, mother of Murat Araç, who have allegedly committed suicide by jumping out of a police headquarters' window while under police custody in...
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The May 2023 re-election of...