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Military officers among 53 facing detention over alleged Gülen links

Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for a total of 53 people including military officers in separate investigations in İstanbul and Ankara due...

They’re just different: ‘Aris’s Journey’ is breaking Down syndrome taboos

Alin Ozinian An estimated 70,000 people live with Down syndrome in Turkey, and many of them and their families feel marginalized in their everyday lives....

Rights advocate MP petitions top court over jail sentence

Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu has petitioned Turkey’s Constitutional Court, claiming that his right to freedom of expression was violated...

NBA star Kanter dedicates Trail Blazers’ latest victory to seized Zaman daily

Portland Trail Blazers center Enes Kanter, an outspoken critic of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the deepening human rights crisis taking place under...

Turkey’s public loss exceeds $590 million under 18-year AKP rule

Public loss in Turkey, which was only around TL 9 million ($1.19 million) in 2002, when the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) came...

Turkey blames bad weather for deadly military helicopter crash

Turkey's defense minister on Friday blamed bad weather for a military helicopter crash that killed 10 soldiers and a senior commander in the...

Another former teacher imprisoned over Gülen links dies of COVID-19

Önder Ateş, a former English teacher arrested for alleged links to the Gülen movement, died in prison on Wednesday of COVID-19, the Stockholm Center...

Stockholm Center for Freedom releases report on Turkey’s Judicial Council

The Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) on Thursday released its latest report, “Turkey’s Judicial Council: Guarantor or Annihilator of Judicial Independence,” a study that...

İYİ Party asks Turkish parliament to declare China’s treatment of Uyghurs ‘genocide’

Turkey’s right-wing opposition İYİ (Good) Party has asked the Turkish parliament to declare the Chinese treatment of its Uighur Muslim minority “genocide” in accordance...

European rights court poses questions to Turkish gov’t on ByLock messaging app

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) posed a series of questions to the Turkish government about the ByLock messaging app in the case...

Eleven Turkish soldiers killed in helicopter crash in SE Turkey

Eleven Turkish soldiers were killed when their military helicopter crashed Thursday in heavy weather in the country's restive southeast, the Agence France-Presse reported citing...

Victim of extraordinary rendition gives account of torture in court

Ayten Öztürk, who was abducted from Lebanon in 2018 by Turkish intelligence, testified in an İstanbul court yesterday about the torture and inhumane treatment...

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