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CAIRO – 15 May 2019: Cairo International Airport earlier recieved the body of a Palestinian citizen who, according to some reports, was killed in one of Turkey’s prisons. The body was handed to the victim’s ...
The Dutch foreign ministry has amended its travel advice for Turkey to warn holidaymakers that their phones and other electronic apparatus can be confiscated if officials think there may be a connection to organisations considered ...
Mubarak’s family have accused Turkish authorities of delaying the process of repatriating the body in order to conceal any traces of torture that may prove his murder. Family members of Zaki Mubarak, a Palestinian ...
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Istanbul prosecutors ordered the detention of 210 military personnel over suspected links to the network blamed by Ankara for orchestrating a failed 2016 military coup, the Istanbul chief prosecutor’s office said on ...
WASHINGTON/ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey has indicted a third U.S. Consulate employee and his wife and daughter on charges of membership of a terrorist group, according to a copy of the indictment seen by Reuters, a ...
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 into custody while holding a sit-in in ...
For four months, Turkish author Asli Erdogan sat behind bars in an Istanbul prison. Now living in exile, she spoke to DW about the political situation in her homeland; and the long-term trauma inflicted by ...
Turkish prosecutors on Monday issued detention warrants for 120 people, including members of the military, as part of a post-coup crackdown targeting followers of the faith-based Gülen movement. The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s office ordered ...
Demonstrators shout slogans during a protest against the government’s plan to extend the state of emergency imposed after the 2016 coup attempt for another three months, in Istanbul, Turkey, Jan. 14, 2018. Credit: Osman Orsal/Reuters For a ...
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The collapse of the rule of law affects all Turkish citizens, especially those of Kurdish origin. Repression intensified after a ceasefire with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) collapsed in mid-2015, and accelerated after the failed ...