Turkish police on
Monday detained four Kurdish mayors, including the chief executive of Turkey’s
largest predominantly Kurdish city of Diyarbakır, after first removing them
from office in...
Turkish police detained four mayors from a
pro-Kurdish party in dawn raids, widening a crackdown since Ankara launched an
incursion into northern Syria a week ago,...
Turgut
Öker, honorary chairman of the Confederation of European Alevi Unions (AABK), was
detained in İstanbul on Friday morning upon his arrival at the airport and
later...
Turkish authorities on Thursday launched
investigations into leaders of the pro-Kurdish opposition and detained 21
people for criticizing a military offensive against a Kurdish militia in
northeast...
Arlet Natali Avazyan, a
Turkish human rights activist of Armenian origin who was detained in İstanbul
on Tuesday due to a family photo of Turkish Foreign...
Arlet Natali Avazyan, a
Turkish human rights activist of Armenian origin, was detained in İstanbul on
Tuesday due to a family photo of Turkish Foreign Minister...
Germany's Foreign Office confirmed to the press on
Sunday that four of six Germans detained in Turkey last week had been released,
Deutsche Welle English service...
Eight Kurdish singers were detained on Friday by
Turkish gendarmes on allegations of spreading terrorist propaganda in the
Viranşehir district of Urfa province by singing in...
Turkish prosecutors have ordered the detention of 99
people, including military members and former military doctors, as part of a
large-scale post-coup crackdown targeting followers of...
Selim Sadak, a former
member of the Turkish Parliament from the ranks of a now-closed Kurdish
political party, was detained by police in the southeastern province...
Ayşegül Tözeren, a columnist for the Evrensel daily
and a poet, was detained by police early Tuesday on suspicion of terrorist links,
according to Fatih Polat,...
