Educator İnandı tortured and his arm broken in 3 places, wife says
Orhan İnandı, a Turkish-Kyrgyz educator rendered from Kyrgyzstan by Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT), was tortured and his right arm broken in three places by Turkish...
UN’s Guterres vows ‘active advocacy’ for refugees facing refoulement after Turks deported from Kenya
UN Secretary-General António Guterres reaffirmed the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ (UNHCR) commitment to advocating against the forced return of refugees, in comments...
Pakistan’s Sindh High Court stops Turkish teachers deportation from country till October 10
The Sindh High Court (SHC) restrained on Tuesday the federal authorities concerned from deporting former employees of the Pak-Turk International Schools in the province...
Afghans collect 1 million signatures to prevent seizure of Turkish schools by Erdoğan regime
Afghans have collected 1 million signatures to prevent the transfer of Turkish schools founded by businessmen and operated by educators allegedly affiliated with the...
Turkish gov’t abducted teacher in Kenya over relationship to Gülen, wife claims
The wife of a teacher who is a nephew of US-based Muslim preacher Fethullah Gülen has claimed that her husband was abducted by operatives...
Documents show Turkish diplomats spied on Erdoğan critics in the United Kingdom: report
The Turkish Embassy in London spied on Turkish citizens in the UK and forwarded the illegal profiling list to Ankara, which led to the...
PACE reveals Turkey’s tactics in its first resolution on transnational repression
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in its first resolution condemning all forms of transnational repression as a growing threat to the rule...
PACE calls on Moldova to restore rule of law after abduction of 7 Turkish...
Twenty-two members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) have signed a statement calling on the Moldovan government to restore the...
Illegal deportation of Kaçmaz Family to Turkey protested in front of Pakistani embassies
People protested the abduction and the illegal deportation of Turkish educator Mesut Kaçmaz and his family from Pakistan to Turkey at request of Turkish autocratic...
Judicial files reveal Turkish Embassy spied on Erdoğan critics in the Netherlands
The Turkish Embassy in the Netherlands profiled Turkish citizens who are opponents of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and sent their private information to...
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