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Jailed post-coup victim judge dies after ICU hospitalization

A former member of Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals who was disbarred in the aftermath of a failed coup and subsequently jailed due to...

Turkey denies targeting civilians in Iraq’s Dohuk province

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on Thursday denied claims that Turkey was behind an attack in Iraq’s Dohuk province that killed nine people, saying...

7 years on, families still seek justice for victims of ISIL massacre in SE Turkey

On the seventh anniversary of the killing of 33 people in an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) suicide attack in southeastern...

Top Swedish court refuses to extradite Gülen-linked former principal to Turkey

The Supreme Court of Sweden has refused Turkey's request to extradite a former principal who used to work at a school affiliated with the...

Jewish cemetery in İstanbul desecrated by vandals

Thirty-six headstones in a Jewish cemetery in İstanbul have been knocked over in the latest apparent vandalism of a Jewish burial ground in Turkey,...

Six years on, Turkey’s July 15 coup still shrouded in mystery

Bünyamin Tekin Six years have passed since July 15, 2016, the day a controversial coup attempt took place in Turkey, but what we don't know...

Greeks have a duty to give shelter to Turkish democrats fleeing Erdoğan: Varoufakis

Bünyamin Tekin "Democrats have a duty, whenever there is a dictatorial turn in any neighboring country, to give shelter and asylum to fellow democrats escaping...

ECtHR has let Turkey’s dissidents down, says jailed Kurdish leader

Selahattin Demirtaş, the jailed ex-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), has said the ineptness of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)...

Greece pushes migrants fleeing Ankara’s persecution back to Turkey

Greece allegedly pushed 10 Turkish asylum seekers who had crossed the Evros River on a dinghy back to Turkey on Wednesday, the Tr724 news...

Doctor recounts details of brutal torture of Turkish soldiers after 2016 coup

A medical doctor who was assigned to a large detention center in Ankara a few days after a coup attempt in July 2016 has...

European anti-torture committee reports allege abuse in Turkish detention facilities

The Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) on Wednesday published reports on its...

Jailed businessman Kavala marks 1,000 days in pretrial detention

Osman Kavala, a jailed businessman and philanthropist who was targeted by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, marked 1,000 days in pretrial detention on Monday. "We've...

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