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AKP to lodge a barrage of criminal complaints against 3 prominent figures over their remarks

Members of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) will file criminal complaints in all 81 provinces of the country against a journalist, a...

The Year in Review: Torture and Inhuman Treatment

According to a review by the Stockholm Center for Freedom, Turkey has experienced a marked resurgence of torture and ill-treatment in custody over the...

Refugees, opposition and İstanbul Convention were the subjects of most disinformation: report

Topics that were the subjects of most disinformation on traditional and social media in Turkey were Syrian refugees, political opposition against the Turkish government...

Anti-gov’t journalist claims Erdoğan physically assaulted him by squeezing his neck

Serdar Akinan, an anti-government journalist living and working in Turkey, has alleged that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan committed a physical assault by squeezing his...

Boğaziçi protests against rector banned as 14 more detained on 3rd day of resistance

Resistance at the prestigious Boğaziçi University to the appointment of Professor Melih Bulu, a Justice and Development Party (AKP) candidate from İstanbul in the...

2 teachers working at Gülen schools deported to Turkey from Ukraine

Two Turkish teachers who were detained in the Ukrainian city of Rava-Ruska on New Year’s Day have been deported to Turkey by Ukrainian authorities...

Opposition mayor says Erdoğan rejected his request for an appointment 57 times

The mayor of a northwestern Turkish province from the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has 57 times...

Turkey’s Erdoğan has 8 VIP aircraft, vice president reveals

Vice President Fuat Oktay announced in reply to a question posed by a main opposition lawmaker that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s office has...

Turkey’s top court says non-prosecution of strip-search case violated prohibition of ill-treatment

Turkey’s Constitutional Court (AYM) concluded in a case involving the strip-search of a woman at a police station in İstanbul that a decision of...

Former military officers among 40 sought on Gülen links

Turkish prosecutors on Tuesday issued detention warrants for 40 people, among them former military officers and cadets, over their alleged links to the Gülen...

Boğaziçi students among 17 detained over protests against AKP-linked rector

Seventeen demonstrators, including students from the prestigious Boğaziçi University in İstanbul, were detained after holding demonstrations to protest the recent appointment of a Justice...

Lawyer who filed complaints of torture branded a ‘dangerous inmate’

Cevheri Güven Turkish authorities have sent a lawyer who has been imprisoned for four years on dubious terror charges to a high-security prison and put...

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