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[OPINION] The ‘execution’ of justice in Turkey

Mehmet Tahsin A terrible play had a two-week run at the Turkish parliament. The speaker of parliament, the justice minister and deputies performed their roles poorly. It...

Court arrests 19 university students over Gülen links amid torture claims: report

A Turkish court on Tuesday ordered the arrest of 19 university students on charges of membership in the Gülen movement, which is accused of orchestrating a...

Former Turkish police chief jailed after 2013 graft probe attacked by guards in prison: report

Former Turkish police chief Ömer Köse, who has been imprisoned since 2014 due to his role in the December 2013 graft probes that implicated high-level government officials,...

Mother of 8-year-old cancer patient prevented from traveling abroad despite court order

Turkish human rights activists raised alarms on social media on Monday after Zekiye Ataç, the mother of an 8-year-old cancer patient who expects to restart treatment in...

Wife reacts in anger as purge victim posthumously reinstated to job by Turkish authorities

Turkey’s State of Emergency (OHAL) Commission has posthumously reinstated a union worker who was dismissed by a government decree in November 2016, causing his widow to...

Cancer patient arrested after arrival in Turkey on charges of insulting Erdoğan

A Turkish court has ruled for the arrest of Ayten Sarıkaya Kesler, a cancer patient who was detained Tuesday morning at an İstanbul airport upon her arrival...

13 migrants in eastern Turkish province found frozen to death: report

Thirteen migrants from Iran have been found frozen to death in a mountainous area of the Çaldıran district in Turkey’s eastern Van province, the Hürriyet Daily...

Attention focuses on cause of Pegasus Airlines crash in İstanbul

Severe weather, pilot error, pressure by the airline to cut safety corners and poor runway condition and government refusal to replace it are all...

Man abducted by Turkish intel exposes torture during 9-month enforced disappearance

Gökhan Türkmen, who was allegedly abducted by Turkish intelligence officers and kept in a non-official detention center for 271 days, has said he was tortured, subjected...

Mother of jailed military cadet prevented from launching ‘Justice March,’ detained

Melek Çetinkaya, the mother of one of the military cadets who were jailed in the aftermath of a failed coup in Turkey in July 2016 and...

Travel ban forces young cancer patient to seek treatment overseas without mother

Eight-year-old Ahmet Burhan Ataç on Sunday travelled to Germany for cancer treatment without his parents, who are both victims of a purge carried out...

Insurance company AKsigorta refuses to pay auto claim for purge victim

AKsigorta, a Turkish insurance company, has rejected a claim for damages sustained in an accident by one of its insureds on the grounds that the claimant...

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