Turkish refugee arrested in Kenya, faces forced return to Turkey: Amnesty
Mustafa Güngör, a Turkish refugee residing in Kenya, was detained with his family and is at serious risk of refoulement to Turkey, Amnesty International...
Human Rights Watch urges Turkey to halt deportation of Turkmen activist
Human Rights Watch has called on Turkish authorities to immediately release Turkmen activist Umidajan Bekchanova, who is currently detained in İstanbul and faces deportation...
Georgian court extends imprisonment of Turkish educator Mustafa Emre Çabuk for 3 months
A Tbilisi court in Georgia has extended the imprisonment of Mustafa Emre Çabuk, who is the principal of Özel Demirel Collge in the country,...
Kenya’s forcible return of UN-protected Turkish refugees follows armed drone sale
Kenya’s forcible return to Turkey of four UN-protected refugees after they were kidnapped by unidentified individuals on Friday in Nairobi comes two months after...
Home Office confirms ongoing crackdown on Gülen movement in Turkey and beyond
The United Kingdom Home Office has released an updated Country Policy and Information Note on the faith-based Gülen movement in Turkey, detailing widespread and...
Turkey continues to misuse INTERPOL databases to target political dissidents: report
The Turkish government, which critics say falsely registers dissidents’ passports as lost, stolen or revoked to facilitate their deportation to Turkey, where they often...
Turkish citizens under UN protection feared to have been abducted by Turkish intelligence in...
Seven Turkish citizens are feared to have been abducted by Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) due to their links to the Gülen movement after...
Turkish diplomats in North Macedonia spied on residents in breach of Vienna conventions: report
Turkish government documents obtained by Nordic Monitor have confirmed that critics of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan were spied on by Turkish diplomats in Skopje...
In Kenya, mystery and silence over Gülen abduction
How did a foreign citizen disappear from Kenya’s police headquarters and end up under arrest in Turkey, despite a court order banning his extradition?
A...
Turkey’s Erdoğan allegedly blackmailed Afghan gov’t for detention of Turkish teachers
The reactions against the abduction of three Turkish teachers, one Afghan teacher and one Turkish businessman who work at the Turkish Schools belonging to...
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