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HRW head: Erdoğan, Sisi violate human rights to great extremes

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi have violated human rights to great extremes in their own countries as they...

Report: 89 Turkish citizens sought asylum in Norway in 2016

A Norwegian newspaper reported on Friday that 89 Turkish citizens had applied for asylum in Norway in 2016, including military officers and diplomats, saying...

2 more members of industrialist Boydak family arrested

Two more members of the Boydak family, prominent industrialists from the Central Anatolian town of Kayseri, were arrested in İstanbul on Tuesday, with Bekir...

Turkish Air Force recruiting pilots who previously failed competency tests

After a massive purge within the military, the Turkish Air Force has been recruiting pilot candidates who were unable to pass competency tests in...

Persistent academic protester among 649 recently purged

Academic Nuriye Gülmen, who was detained dozens of times for protesting dismissal from her university position, has been purged from the civil service along...

[UPDATE] New decrees dismiss 8,390 more people in Turkey

With three new decrees that Turkey issued on Friday night, enabled by state of emergency powers, 8,390 people were purged from public service and...

Police, military, academics among thousands purged by latest gov’t decree

With three new decrees that Turkey issued on Friday night enabled by state of emergency powers, thousands more people, including engineers, teachers, doctors, academics,...

Police carry out operations in 18 provinces, detain 30 over coup charges

Turkish police on Tuesday carried out simultaneous operations in 18 Turkish provinces and detained a total of 30 civilians as part of an investigation...

EU concerned over confiscation of journalists’ assets

The European Union has reacted adversely to the seizure of journalists’ assets by the Turkish government on charges of “aiding terrorism.” Of the 54 journalists...

37 detained in 8 provinces over coup charges

A total of 37 people, including businessmen and civil servants, have been detained as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, which the...

55,000 police officers under investigation after Russian envoy’s assassination

Following the assassination of Russian Ambassador to Ankara Andrei Karlov on Dec. 19 by a young Turkish police officer who chanted radical slogans, the...

14 staff members dismissed from Justice Ministry now arrested over Gülen links

As part of a massive purge currently ongoing in Turkey, on the last day of the year 14 dismissed personnel from the Ministry of...

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