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Turkish religious leader acquitted of terror charges

Alparslan Kuytul, the head of a religious community critical of the Turkish government, was acquitted on Tuesday of charges of disseminating propaganda for a...

AKP wants to take revenge on Kurds for defeating ISIL, jailed Kurdish leader says

The Turkish government has ramped up a crackdown on pro-Kurdish politicians to avenge the defeat of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant...

Ankara issues detention warrants for 60 lawyers accused of ‘terrorism under the guise of practicing law’

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office on Friday issued detention warrants for 60 lawyers on terror charges. According to a statement released by the office,...

Turkish migrant left stranded by Greek border guards goes missing

A Turkish migrant who fled Ankara's crackdown on dissent disappeared just hours after Greek border guards left him stranded in the Evros River, Euronews...

Jailed lawyer dies in Turkey after 238 days of hunger strike

A lawyer sentenced to more than 13 years in prison by a Turkish court on terror charges died on Thursday after 238 days of...

Erdoğan aide says Turkey considering ‘controlling,’ not shutting down, social media

İbrahim Kalın, spokesperson for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said the Turkish government does not plan to completely block access to social media but...

2 more Kurdish party mayors removed from office in Turkey’s Southeast

Turkey’s Interior Ministry on Thursday decided to remove from office the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-mayors of Elazığ’s Sarıcan district, according to the...

Turkish gov’t continued crackdown on dissidents in 2019: Amnesty annual report

Government's crackdown on dissidents in Turkey continued in 2019 despite the end of a two-year-long state of emergency in July 2018, Amnesty International (AI)...

Turkey detains 5 more Kurdish mayors amid widening crackdown against HDP: report

Turkish authorities detained the mayors of five municipalities in Kurdish-majority areas on Monday as part of a widening government crackdown on the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP),...

Turkey’s Kurdish party elects co-chairs amid gov’t crackdown targeting members

Turkey's Kurdish opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) on Friday announced the election of two new co-chairs at its 4th Congress in Ankara amid the Turkish government's...

Turkish justice system fails to release purge victim diagnosed with stage 4 cancer

Abdülazim Özdemir, a 49-year-old engineer who was purged from his job at the Ministry of Development in the aftermath of a failed coup in Turkey in...

119 people in Turkey died due to crackdown on Gülen movement in 2019

At least 119 people lost their lives in Turkey due to an ongoing government-led crackdown on the Gülen movement, which is accused by the Turkish government...

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