Canada’s Green Party leader on human rights violations in Turkey: I am entirely horrified
Canada's Green Party leader and lawmaker Elizabeth May said during a panel discussion held at the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa on widespread human rights...
Paralyzed by ill-treatment in Sivas prison, Turkish police officer dies at 33
Kadir Eyce, a 33-year-old police officer who was jailed due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, has died several weeks after he was...
Exiled journalist reveals systematic mass torture, abuse targeting Turkey’s military staff
According to an article written by Turkish journalist Cevheri Güven titled “Game in a Sports Hall in Ankara“ published in Kronos online news outlet...
Turkish airport construction workers go on strike, face pepper spray
Workers at the construction site of İstanbul’s new airport went on strike on Friday due to allegedly dangerous working conditions that have caused hundreds...
PACE co-rapporteurs Mikko and Evans to make fact-finding visit to Turkey
Marianne Mikko (Estonia, SOC) and Nigel Evans (United Kingdom, EC), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), will be making...
Purge victim reinstated to job after his death
Ömer Faruk Arsoy, a computer technician who used to work at a state hospital in the southern Turkish province of Mersin but was removed...
Bodies found in Aegean Sea show volume of cruelty and oppression in Turkey
While trying to escape from Turkey to Mytilene Island of Greece, a family with three children, who disappeared in the Aegean Sea, were found...
CCTV recordings at police station reveal brutal treatment of detainee
Newly emerged CCTV recordings of a man who died in police custody on June 5 in İstanbul show several policemen detaining him and one...
At least 3 victims of Erdoğan’s persecution targeting Gülen movement drowned as trying to...
At least three victims of the massive post-coup persecution of Turkish government, led by autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, targeting the alleged members of...
Yakup Şimşek, brand marketing manager for Turkish critical daily, behind bars over a TV...
A veteran media professional has been jailed in Turkey for 430 days over a TV commercial that was designed to attract new subscribers to...
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