Pakistan government violates UNHCR status by deporting Kaçmaz Family to Turkey
The repercussions of the deportation of Turkish teacher Mesut Kaçmaz (43) and his family by Pakistan government to Turkey on early Saturday, despite of...
Erdoğan says Fethullah Gülen will be abducted just like 6 Turks in Kosovo
Autocratic Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, who lives in the US, will face the same end as...
Turkey’s pro-Erdoğan media: MİT has located 4,600 alleged members of Gülen movement in 110...
The agents of Turkey's notorious National Intelligence Organisation (MİT) have reportedly located 4,600 alleged members of the Gülen movement in 110 countries around the world,...
Turkish Embassy in Sweden spied on exiled journalist and critics, documents reveal
In a blatant violation of international conventions, Turkish diplomats and consular officers in Sweden have gathered intelligence about exiled Turkish journalist Abdullah Bozkurt and...
Kyrgyz school alumni offer $1 million reward for location of missing educator
The alumni of a prestigious network of schools in Kyrgyzstan whose president went missing on the evening of May 31 and is feared to...
Educator abducted from Kyrgyzstan by Turkish spies arrested on terrorism charges
A Turkish court on Monday ruled to arrest Orhan İnandı, an educator who was abducted from Kyrgyzstan by Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) due...
US Congress passes act fighting political abuse of INTERPOL’s notice system
The US Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), aka the Helsinki Commission, has announced on its website that the US Senate passed...
European judges association, Belgian law firm, NGO take Turkey’s alleged crimes against humanity to...
A law firm and two nongovernmental organizations advocating human rights and the rule of law have sent a communication to the International Criminal Court...
Activist testifies before US congressional subcommittee on Turkey’s transnational repression
Enes Kanter Freedom, an activist and former NBA basketball player, on Wednesday testified before a subcommittee of the Committee on Homeland Security of the...
Turkish authorities forcibly deport 300 Eritreans despite high risk of human rights violations: UN...
The Turkish government forcibly deported 300 Eritrean migrants to their home country, where they face a grave risk of human rights violations, according to...
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