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HRW concerned Turkey pressuring disappeared men to remain silent about ordeal

Turkish authorities’ decision to deny lawyers access to four men who were disappeared in February 2019 but are now confirmed to be in police custody in...

Turkey orders detention of 2,073 Gülen followers in July: ministry

According to Turkey’s deputy interior minister, İsmail Çataklı 2,073 suspects were detained in July as part of a post-coup crackdown targeting the faith-based Gülen movement, the...

Detention of previously missing Gülen followers extended for second time

The detention of four out of six men who were allegedly abducted by the Turkish intelligence agency in February and were found and taken into custody...

4 medical personnel detained in SE Turkey for treating injured PKK militants

A doctor and three male nurses were detained in the southeastern Turkish province of Şırnak on Friday for offering treatment to Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists...

6 Turkish asylum seekers detained after Greek police push them back to Turkey

Six Turkish asylum seekers who crossed the Evros River into Greece were pushed back to Turkey by Greek police and subsequently detained by Turkish gendarmes in...

15-year-old Kurdish girl released pending trial after 12-day detention

A 15-year-old Kurdish girl who was taken into police custody along with other family members was released 12 days later, the gazetekarınca news website reported on...

4 ODTÜ students detained hours before graduation ceremony

Four students from Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) were taken into police custody on Sunday, hours before the school’s graduation ceremony, which is usually a venue...

Editor of gov’t-critical news website detained for insulting Turkish president

Ali Ergin Demirhan, editor of the sendika.org news website, a media outlet critical of the Turkish government, was detained on Friday on accusations of insulting Turkey’s president,...

US-based Turkish academic released after detention for signing peace petition

Baki Tezcan, an associate professor of history and religious studies at the University of California, Davis, was released by a court after his detention at an İstanbul...

Turkey detains 17 people with alleged Gülen ties on their way to Greece

Turkish police on Saturday detained 17 people who were on their way to Greece fleeing a post-coup crackdown targeting followers of the faith-based Gülen movement, the...

Turkey detains some 27,000 irregular migrants in May: report

A total of 27,536 undocumented migrants and 561 human smuggling suspects were detained across Turkey in May, the country’s deputy interior minister has said, according to...

Turkish police detain woman staging sit-in to protest sexual abuse of 5-year-old

A Turkish woman who protested the sexual assault of a 5-year-old in İstanbul was briefly detained, the Etkin news agency reported on Wednesday. Yasemin Babat Kayan was taken...

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