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Video catches Turkish police brutally beating 2 handcuffed detainees

A video shared by the İHA news agency shows two handcuffed men being beaten by police in the Dikili district of İzmir. The video shows...

Veteran journalist Cemal convicted of terror propaganda in series on PKK

Veteran Turkish journalist Hasan Cemal has been given a suspended sentence of three months, 22 days by a Turkish court for a series of...

Former TRT journalist Böken gets 9 years, 9 months on terror charges  

Ahmet Böken, a journalist who used to work for public broadcaster Turkish Radio and Television (TRT) and has been behind bars since August 2016,...

Former judge jailed over Gülen links dies of heart attack in prison

Teoman Gökçe, a top judge and a former member of Turkey’s Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK), died on Monday following a heart attack...

1,250 academics from around the world ask for release of Boğaziçi students

A total of 1,250 academics from more than 100 organizations across 37 countries of the world have signed a petition asking for the release...

Turkish Deputy PM says Erdoğan and Putin are the world’s only leaders

One of Turkey’s deputy prime ministers, Hakan Çavuşoğlu, has said there are no leaders in any European countries and that Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip...

Turkish court seeks Interpol Red Notice, issues arrest warrant for journalist Dündar

An İstanbul court on Monday issued an arrest warrant in absentia and sought an Interpol Red Notice for exiled Turkish journalist Can Dündar, the...

Harms calls on EU to grant Turkey purge victims political asylum

Rebecca Harms, spokeswoman for foreign affairs and expert on Turkey in the European Parliament’s Greens/EFA group, on Monday called on the European Union to...

Turkish gov’t detains 8,188 over Gülen links in last three months

The Turkish Interior Ministry announced on Monday that 853 people have been detained in the past week due to alleged links to the faith-based...

Cellmate: Gülen follower abducted from Malaysia subjected to torture in jail

Alaaddin Duman, a former teacher in Malaysia who was abducted by the Turkish intelligence agency over alleged links to the Gülen movement in 2016,...

Erdoğan says Gülen will be abducted just like 6 Turks in Kosovo

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, who lives in the US, will face the same end as six...

No HDP members appear on Turkish national TV for more than a year

A report on the media coverage of political parties has revealed that pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) members have not been invited to appear...

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