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BBC report: Women with 6-month-old infants in jail due to emergency rule in Turkey

Hundreds of women are in pretrial detention in jails across Turkey with their infants, some of them less than six months old, due to...

Elderly woman, daughter detained over Gülen links at airport on way to pilgrimage

Turkish police detained an elderly woman and her daughter at İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport while they were preparing to embark on a pilgrimage to...

Demirtaş calls on ‘democracy powers’ to join CHP’s ‘Justice Congress’

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Co-chairperson Selahattin Demirtaş has said all “democracy powers” should attend a “Justice Congress” to be organized by the main...

[OPINION] Turkey’s MİT intel agency saved ISIL executioner from legal troubles

Abdullah Bozkurt The Turkish government knew all Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) suspects, monitored their activities and put surveillance on them but...

Turkish students flock to theology faculties due to job guarantees

According to the results of the 2017 university entrance examinations, theology and Islamic sciences have become the second most popular major after law among...

German firms sell 5.6 million euros worth of arms to Turkey

Despite ongoing tension between Berlin and Ankara over a visit to military bases in Turkey, the detention of several German journalists and a rights...

23 including HDP co-chairs detained in Antalya-based anti-PKK operations

Turkish police have detained 23 people, including the Antalya co-chairs of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), in operations against outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party...

Legal action taken against 5 dismissed prison officers over ‘hero’ T-shirt

As part of an investigation launched after Gökhan Güçlü, a suspect on trial for an assassination attempt against President Tayyip Erdoğan on the night...

HDP report: 36 villagers tortured with truncheons, rifle butts and mop sticks

A report by the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) concerning an incident of villagers allegedly tortured by police in the Şemdinli district of Hakkari...

Turkish gov’t seizes 8 companies in Kahramanmaraş over Gülen links

The Turkish government has seized eight more companies in Turkey’s Kahramanmaraş province as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, accused of masterminding...

Police officer suspended for torturing villagers in Hakkari

The Hakkari Governor's Office said on Thursday that a police officer was suspended as part of an investigation into an incident of villagers allegedly...

Jailed journalists refuse to wear uniforms designed for coup suspects

Imprisoned journalists from the Cumhuriyet and Sözcü newspapers told members of two Turkish press organizations who visited them in Silivri Prison on Thursday that...

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