Turkish teacher put on plane by Turkish police after detention at Myanmar airport
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Myanmar-based teacher M. Furkan Sökmen was put on a Turkish Airlines flight by Turkish police and Turkish Embassy staff on Friday after he and...
UN ‘deeply concerned’ by Kenya’s return of Turkish refugees
The United Nations expressed concern Tuesday over the repatriation of four Turkish refugees from Kenya who rights groups say were abducted and forcibly returned in violation...
Freedom House report shows extent of Turkey’s transnational repression policy
A report by Freedom House on global transnational repression published today reveals the intensity, geographic reach and suddenness of the Turkish government’s campaign targeting...
Press Freedom in Turkey: 2021 in Review
The Turkish government continued to muzzle the press in 2021 in a variety of ways, including imprisoning journalists and using regulatory authorities to exert...
German Green Party co-chair calls on int’l community to prevent deportation of educator İnandı...
Cem Özdemir, the co-chairman of the German Green Party, on Wednesday called on the international community to prevent the deportation to Turkey of educator...
Turkish journalist Erdoğdu appeals for help as new abduction list appears in Ukrainian media
Yunus Erdoğdu, a Kiev-based Turkish journalist, has called for help as a list of 10 people including him was published in the Ukrainian media...
Report: Two Turkish nationals, abducted from plane in Kazakhstan, returned to Turkey
Enver Kılıç and Zabit Kişi, the two Turkish nationals who were abducted from a plane in Kazakhstan in mid-September turn out to have been...
Wife of missing educator launches ‘justice watch’ in Bishkek
The wife of a Turkish-Kyrgyz educator feared to have been abducted by Turkish intelligence began a “justice watch” in front of the Kyrgyz presidential...
Turkish Embassy in Tbilisi spied on asylum seekers, secret documents reveal
The Turkish Embassy in Tbilisi spied on 52 Turkish citizens who had sought political asylum in Georgia, official correspondence of the Turkish National Police,...
Turkey’s Erdoğan threatens Kosovo PM Haradinaj: You will pay the price for this
Autocratic Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan criticised Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj on Saturday for dismissing the country's interior minister and intelligence chief on...
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