Category: Human Rights
Akın Öztürk PHOTO: Hürriyet Former commander of the Turkish Air Forces retired Gen. Akın Öztürk has said a plot was staged against him on the night of a failed coup on July 15, 2016 to ...
Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy and human rights activist Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu on Sunday said another Turkish national was abducted by Turkey’s intelligence agency in February, based on a report to him from the victim’s ...
AFP PHOTO / ILYAS AKENGIN One hundred sixty-seven more officers have been expelled from the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) due to their alleged links to the Gülen movement, which is accused by the Turkish government ...
An inside view from the Turkey’s biggest court house, Çağlayan. PHOTO: Hürriyet According to the World Justice Project Rule of Law Index 2019 released on Thursday, Turkey ranks 109th among 126 countries in adherence to ...
The anchorman of the TV channel announced the decision to their audience, saying “our crime is impartiality.” Turkey’s second oldest private TV station, Flash TV, an entertainment outlet, has announced a self-imposed suspension of broadcasting ...
Yiğit family Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy and human rights activist Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu brought up the case of a purge victim family in parliament on Tuesday, saying that the 4-year-old child of a couple ...
PHOTO: Medya Bold Feb. 28 marked the 22nd anniversary of a military intervention, dubbed the Feb.28 postmodern military coup, which introduced heavy restrictions on the lives of pious people in Turkey, particularly for headscarf-wearing women. Today, ...
Turkey on Friday lifted passport restrictions on nearly 60,000 people with alleged ties to failed coup in 2016, the Interior Ministry said. A total of 57,191 passports are now clear of restrictions following investigations, the ...
Turkish police detained 14 teachers on Thursday after they had a disagreement with a prosecutor over reservations to use a local football field, Diken news site reported . The prosecutor wanted to use the facility although the ...
By Ergun Babahan Turkey is paying a high price for the fact that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan grew up in what was a poor peripheral part of Istanbul and his Islamist ruling Justice and Development ...