A Turkish court in İstanbul on Tuesday ordered Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu to pay damages for a statement claiming that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s…
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Purge-victim judge couple reunion daughter after 29 months in Turkish prison on coup charges
The couple of Neslihan and Hüseyin Ekinci, who are both judges, finally saw each other and re-unioned with their daughter Rana Ekinci after almost 29 months in pre-trial detention on…
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Turkish gov’t jails yet another woman with her 25-days-old baby
Ayşe Şeyma Taş, a Turkish woman who gave birth 25 days ago, was jailed together with her new-born baby by Turkish government led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday…
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Switzerland deports Turkish national Kurdish asylum seeker to Brazil
Several Kurds stranded in the Zürich Airport now fear deportation after Ramazan Turan, a Kurdish citizen of Turkey who has sought asylum, was deported by force last Thursday. According to…
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EP Rapporteur Piri demands formal suspension of accessions talks with Turkey
Kati Piri, the European Parliament’s (EP) rapporteur on Turkey, said in a report, which was presented to the EP on Wednesday, that the continuing a negotiating process aimed at EU integration…
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145 detention warrants issued, 80 detained over Gülen links in one day
Turkish prosecutors on Tuesday issued detention warrants for 145 people and detained 80 of them as part of its post-coup crackdown targeting followers of the Gülen movement, according to a…
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Gülen movement confirms botched plot against jailed followers in Turkey on election night
The Alliance for Shared Values (AfSV), the official representative of the Gülen movement in the United States, in an online statement on Sunday, confirmed the existence of a plot against…
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Released academic says detention has become common practice in Turkey
Cenk Yiğiter, an academic who had been fired from his job by the Turkish government, was released on Monday following his detention on Friday at his home in Ankara on…
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Turkey cuts disability benefit for blind journalist serving prison sentence
Visually impaired Turkish journalist Cüneyt Arat, who was jailed in July 2017 over alleged links to the Gülen movement, sent a letter through his lawyer over the weekend stating that…
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Students, teachers from Gülen schools in Afghanistan detained for protesting government takeover
A number of students and teachers from the Afghan-Turk school in Herat province were detained on Sunday by local police over their protests against a government takeover of the school…
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