Category: Human Rights
Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 176 officers of the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) including six F-16 pilots and four gendarmerie district commanders over alleged links to the Gülen movement, accused by the Turkish ...
Hakan Sukur is Turkey’s greatest ever goalscorer and once one of Europe’s most prolific strikers. A legend. So, how did he end up driving taxis and selling books for a living in the US, in ...
Kurdish journalist Seda Taskin JOURNALISM in Turkey is “a dangerous profession,” with hundreds of media workers locked up by an authoritarian government which brands them terrorists, according to press freedom groups in the country. Friday, ...
Turkish art patron and businessman Osman Kavala has been in jail for more than two years, accused of wanting to overthrow the government. Beril Eski spoke to him about his life in prison and his ...
Two employees of the re-named Sapat school network are reportedly in detention. A Bishkek court has stalled their extradition. A court in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, reportedly overturned a decision made by the Prosector General’s Office to ...
People protest outside the headquarters of Bugun Newspaper and Kanalturk TV station in Istanbul during a rally against the Turkish government’s crackdown on media outlets. (AFP/File) They were handed jail terms of 2 years or ...
PHOTO: Amnesty (illustrative) Former public servants who were detained on Wednesday over membership in the faith-based Gülen movement were subjected to ill treatment and threatened with sexual abuse, according to an opposition deputy, the Euronews ...
Engin Erol, 41, a Turkish businessman who was jailed three years ago on allegations of membership in the faith-based Gülen movement, died on Thursday evening in a hospital from cancer, which was not treated properly ...
Turkish authorities on Friday detained a mayor from the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) due to suspected links to Kurdish militants, the latest in a crackdown on mayors from the party since elections this year, ...
Turkish cartoonist Nuri Kurtcebe has been indicted by a prosecutor for allegedly insulting public officials in a Facebook post in 2017, with the prosecution seeking a prison sentence of up to four years, the Independent’s ...
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