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1 police officer killed during HDP protests in Adana

A police officer died from gunshot wounds sustained during protests in Adana province on Sunday that were sparked by the arrest of pro-Kurdish Peoples’...

Lawyer urges int’l monitoring in Turkish prisons over staged riot claims

Lawyer Ömer Turanlı has called on human rights organizations and the relevant commissions of the EU to immediately monitor incidents taking place in Turkey's...

Turkey arrests DBP Co-chair Tuncel

Democratic Regions Party (DBP) Co-chairperson Sebahat Tuncel, who was taken to a hospital after police intervened in a demonstration in front of the Diyarbakır...

Erdoğan says goal of ‘imprudent’ HDP politicians to cause trouble for Turkey

In his first remarks on the arrest of nine politicians from Turkey's second largest opposition party, the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), President Recep...

PKK offshoot TAK claims responsibility for Diyarbakır bombing

The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK), an offshoot of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), has claimed responsibility for a deadly car bomb attack in...

EP’s Harms calls for extraordinary EU foreign ministers meeting on Turkey

Rebecca Harms, the president of the Green-European Free Alliance group and a member of Alliance ‘90/The Greens at the national level, has called for...

HDP decides to halt parliamentary work due to crackdown on party

The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has decided to withdraw from parliamentary work following the arrest of nine of its deputies including the party's...

Report: Purge risks isolating Turkey’s higher education from int’l academia

Turkey’s purge of academics has already harmed the reputation of its higher education sector, the latest Free to Think report from the New York-based Scholars at Risk (SAR)...

Turkish gov’t planning slaughter of jailed Gülen followers in staged riot, lawyer claims

The Turkish government is headed for mass killings of people jailed over alleged or real links to the Gülen movement, in a staged riot...

Ankara cancels German minister’s visit, keeps him waiting on phone

Turkey has canceled a visit by German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the last minute, keeping him waiting on the phone twice, Deutsche Welle...

Gülen movement now blamed for police violence during Gezi protests

In yet another example of scapegoating the Gülen movement for any wrongdoing in Turkey or in anywhere else in the world, ruling Justice and...

Kurds take to the streets of European cities to protest Erdoğan, HDP arrests

The Kurdish diaspora living in Europe took to the streets of various European capitals on Saturday to protest the detention and subsequent arrest of...

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