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Lawyer: Zarrab to cooperate with US authorities

Cahit Akbulut, a New York-based lawyer who is closely following a case against Turkish-Iranian gold trader Reza Zarrab in the District Court for the...

Judge Berman implies Turkish-Iranian gold trader Zarrab is still part of case in US

Judge Richard M. Berman, the senior federal judge of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York who is hearing the case...

US commission discusses Turkish gov’t crackdown on dissent, US citizens

The US Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), aka the Helsinki Commission, held a hearing on Wednesday on the victims, including US...

NYT says jailed Turkish-Iranian gold trader Zarrab may plead guilty

Reza Zarrab, a Turkish gold trader who has been charged in Manhattan with conspiring to violate US sanctions on Iran, may be prepared to...

Imprisoned Turkish media designer: I’m calling you from a shrunken small world

Fevzi Yazıcı, a Turkish member of the US-based international Society for News Design (SND) who was imprisoned last year as part of a government...

Report: While advising Trump in 2016, ex-CIA chief proposed plan to discredit Gülen

Former CIA director James Woolsey pitched a $10 million contract to two Turkish businessmen to help discredit U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gülen while he was...

EESC president urges immediate release of rights activist Kavala

Georges Dassis, president of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), said on Thursday he was disappointed by the detention of human rights activist...

German, Swedish rights activists leave Turkey after release from prison

German citizen Peter Frank Steudtner and Swedish national Ali Gharavi, who were released on Wednesday after 112 days in jail along with six other...

Rights groups say 285 Turkish teachers, families, face risk of deportation from Pakistan

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and its member organization the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) said on Thursday that 285 Turkish...

Chief of Turkish general staff raises Ankara’s concerns over YPG during US visit

Turkey’s Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar expressed Ankara’s concerns about Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia in Syria during bilateral meetings on...

Amnesty International slams ‘show trial’ of human rights activists in Turkey

Amnesty International issued a statement on their website on Wednesday harshly criticizing judicial proceedings involving 11 human rights activists in Turkey, calling it a...

Lawyer on Kaçmaz family abduction: Does Pakistani gov’t hand people over to world dictators?

Renowned Pakistani human rights lawyer and social activist Asma Jilani Jahangir, who co-founded and chaired the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and is also...

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