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Father says his arrested newspaper distributor son being beaten in prison

Prison guards have been beating Salih Elitaş, a distributor for the Azadiya Welat newspaper, which has been targeted by the government, along with other...

Human Rights Watch: Detainee suffers from frozen shoulder after ill-treatment in custody

Forced to stay in a stress position for long hours, one of Turkey’s post-coup detainees suffered from frozen shoulder, a forensic specialist told Human...

YARSAV’s Murat Arslan arrested

Former head of the Judges and Prosecutors Association (YARSAV) Murat Arslan, who was detained in Ankara on Oct. 19 as part of an investigation...

Gülen-linked figures made target of potential attacks after ministry’s terror list move

In a move that is likely to make them the target of hate crimes, the Turkish government has included the names of 37 people...

EP’s S&D: Turkey coup attempt cannot be used to silence dissent

Following the arrests of several more elected local politicians and journalists in Turkey, the Socialists and Democrats Group (S&D) in the European Parliament on...

Police officer commits suicide fearing to be targeted in anti-Gülen operations

A 44-year-old police officer has committed suicide with his service revolver in the western province of Bursa fearing to be targeted in an ongoing...

Police detain 25 people protesting detention of Diyarbakır co-mayors

Police teams have intervened in a crowd that gathered in front of the Diyarbakır municipal building to protest the detention of the city's co-mayors...

I am the chief muhtar controlling all of Turkey, says Erdoğan

In remarks that apparently came as confirmation of claims suggesting that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is aspiring to take everything in the country under...

EP’s Harms calls for end of persecution of journalists in Turkey

Ahead of a debate at the European Parliament on the situation of journalists in Turkey, Rebecca Harms, the president of the Green-European Free Alliance...

After government’s investigation into its story, Hürriyet blames Gülen movement

Following an investigation launched into the Hürriyet daily due to an interview the newspaper published on Monday with the owner of a smart phone...

EU commissioners express concern over detention of Diyarbakır co-mayors

Two high-level European Commission officials expressed concern on Wednesday over the detention of Diyarbakır’s Kurdish co-mayors, urging the restoration of the rule of law...

HDP deputies blame coup commission head for Kurdish mayor’s detention

Following the detention of Diyarbakır Co-mayor Gülten Kışanak only hours after she testified on Tuesday to Parliament’s Coup Investigation Commission, commission members from the...

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