Police in Afghanistan on Friday carried out raids to take over three high schools operated by the Gülen movement, the MedyaBold news website reported on Friday. After raiding two high…
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Journalist gets 8 years, 3 months for alleged terror links
The Muş 2nd High Criminal Court on Friday handed down a sentence of eight years, three months in prison to journalist İdris Sayılğan after his conviction of membership in a terrorist…
Read MoreTurkey’s Maarif fails to deliver success in Afghanistan: report
A report released in January by nongovernmental organization the Advocates of Silenced Turkey (AST) claims that schools in Afghanistan taken over from the Gülen movement and handed over to Turkey’s…
Read MoreHuman rights defender professor forced to retire due to prison sentence
Professor Şebnem Korur Fincancı, the head of the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) and a doctor of forensics, retired from her position at İstanbul University on Wednesday as her…
Read MoreNetherlands to put pressure on Ankara to avoid attack on Syrian Kurds: report
The Dutch government accepted two motions from Dutch MPs last week to pressure Turkey not to attack the Syrian Democratic Forces’ (SDF) and its Kurdish element, the People’s Protection Units…
Read MoreDeputy claims headscarf will be banned if ruling AKP loses local elections
A deputy from the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) argued on Sunday that if their party loses in the upcoming local elections in his home province of Van, women…
Read MoreGerman politicians skeptical of DİTİB’s claim of refocus on religious services
German politicians have expressed skepticism over a campaign launched by the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DİTİB) — the largest Islamic umbrella group in Germany and recently accused of being…
Read MoreGerman trial observer doesn’t believe YARSAV’s Murat Arslan is a Gülenist
Ingrid Heinlein, a retired German judge who is among the observers of the trial of Murat Arslan, president of the now dissolved Association for the Union of Judges and Prosecutors…
Read MoreTeacher who died in jail reported being denied crucial treatment in letter shortly before death
Halime Gülsu, a 34-year-old unemployed English teacher who died in jail in May because she was allegedly denied the necessary treatment for a chronic disease, wrote a letter to the…
Read MoreWoman with 45-day-old baby detained as part of post-coup witch-hunt in Turkey
Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and human rights defender Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu on Tuesday reported another human rights violation in Turkey, saying that a mother with a 45-day-old baby is in…
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