1.7 C
Frankfurt am Main

CATEGORY

Featured

Thousands of Turks march against planned gold mine: report

Thousands of Turks including opposition lawmakers staged a peaceful and unusually large protest on the outskirts of a small western town on Monday against what they...

Video exposes police negligence during heart attack of teacher tortured in custody

Bold Medya has released a video showing the negligence of police officers in the death of Gökhan Açıkkollu, a purged history teacher who died...

Prosecutors say report targeting journalists is free speech, no need for investigation

Turkish prosecutors have found no reason to investigate a controversial report compiled by a pro-government think tank examining foreign news networks and listing the personal details of...

Purged teacher tells of torture, sexual abuse in police detention

A teacher who was removed from his job and subsequently arrested due to his alleged links to the Gülen  movement in the aftermath of a failed coup...

Families suspect abducted Gülen followers subjected to torture

Families of four Gülen followers who appeared in police custody after being missing since February revealed that their loved ones might have been subjected to torture,...

378 minors victims of sexual abuse in Şanlıurfa in first 6 months of 2019

A total of 378 minors were subjected to sexual abuse in the southeastern Turkish province of Şanlıurfa in the first six months of 2019,...

Melting snow exposes bodies of 25 migrants who froze to death on Turkish-Iraqi border

The bodies of 25 illegal migrants who apparently froze to death were discovered on the Turkish-Iraqi border with the melting of snow in the area, according...

Court refuses to release mother from jail despite baby’s growing tumor

A Turkish court has refused to release a young mother who is in prison with her one-and-a-half-year-old baby in southeastern Turkey although the baby has a...

Tunceli mourns death of 2 Kurdish children in explosion

Two Kurdish children from the same family lost their lives in an explosion in the eastern Turkish province of Tunceli on Monday, sparking a wave of...

Turkish lawyer reports torture of suspect detained over Gülen links

A lawyer from Kayseri province has reported that her client, who was detained due to his alleged affiliation with the Gülen movement, was subjected to torture...

Justice Ministry says Turkey building 137 new prisons

Turkey has been building 137 new prisons with a capacity to house 88,367 inmates, according to the Justice Ministry, the Gazete Duvar news website reported. As of...

Saturday Mothers hold protest with wives of abducted Gülen followers

Saturday Mothers, a group of activists and relatives seeking the whereabouts of loved ones who disappeared while in police custody in the 1990s, held a protest...

Latest news