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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...

Brother of military cadet killed on 2016 coup night says brutal group, not a mob, murdered him

Fevzi Katran, the brother of Ragıp Enes Katran, who was brutally killed on the Bosporus Bridge in İstanbul on the night of a failed coup on...

[ANALYSIS] What to expect from Turkey in 2020

The end of 2019 was marked in Turkey by an event during which Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan unveiled the prototype of a domestically produced electric...

119 people in Turkey died due to crackdown on Gülen movement in 2019

At least 119 people lost their lives in Turkey due to an ongoing government-led crackdown on the Gülen movement, which is accused by the Turkish government...

Late stage cancer Gülen follower dies after belated release from prison

Engin Erol, 41, a Turkish businessman who was jailed three years ago on allegations of membership in the faith-based Gülen movement, died on Thursday evening in...

Former public servants in custody threatened with sexual abuse: report

Former public servants who were detained on Wednesday over membership in the faith-based Gülen movement were subjected to ill treatment and threatened with sexual abuse, according...

Parents jailed over Gülen links not allowed see their children for 9 months

Parents of four Bedia Baş and Abdülkadir Baş, who were arrested on terrorism charges in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt in Turkey in 2016...

Ankara lawyers subjected to intimidation, threats in prison meeting with purge victim

Lawyers from the Ankara Bar Association say they were intimidated by management and threatened by guards at Sincan Prison, where they went to meet with four...

Turkey’s Interior Ministry blocks business permit for purge victim teacher

A district municipality in Turkey’s southern province of Mersin refused to issue a business permit for former elementary school teacher Ramazan Tekin, who was previously removed from...

Turkish lawyer exposes torture of client detained over Gülen links

A Turkish lawyer on Saturday said his client, who was detained last week as part of an investigation into the faith-based Gülen movement, was subjected to...

Report: Turkey’s press freedom not improved after state of emergency, journalists remain behind bars

“The press freedom environment in has not improved since the lifting of the state of emergency in July 2018. Scores of journalists remain behind bars...

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