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A Turkish teacher said three unidentified men tried to abduct him in Ankara as he was about to get into his car but that they fled after he started shouting and managed to attract a ...
Former member of Turkey’s Constitutional Court Alparslan Altan. PHOTO: Cumhuriyet A panel of five judges at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Monday rejected Turkey’s request to refer to the court’s Grand Chamber ...
Veli Saçılık Veli Saçılık, a purged human rights defender, was allegedly subjected to excessive force on Thursday when he was taken into custody during a protest in Ankara against the Turkish government’s removal from office ...
US Department of State building. The US Department of State on Thursday updated its travel advisory on Turkey, urging increased caution due to terrorism and arbitrary detentions. “Updated Turkey Travel Advisory was published last night. ...
The letter from a medical student who begs for life from Turkish prison. Münise Kübra Çakırçoban, a medical student who was put behind bars three years ago due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, ...
Turkey is described as an open prison by many inside the country with human rights and democracy seriously eroded by the brutal regime of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. There are more journalists in prison than ...
The Diyarbakır Bar Association has announced that scores of inmates in a high security prison in eastern Elazığ province were physically battered by guards, the Artı Gerçek news website reported on Friday. After a visit ...
Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, deputy, in parliament. Yusuf Bilge Tunç, a former civil servant who was fired from Turkey’s Defense Ministry, has been missing since Tuesday, according to Turkish deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, who raised concerns ...
A teacher who was removed from his job and subsequently arrested due to his alleged links to the Gülen movement in the aftermath of a failed coup in Turkey in July 2016 has said he ...
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It is disturbing and disappointing that the government has once again deported an asylum seeker and his family without due process. According to news reports, Arif Komis, a Turkish school teacher, and his family were ...