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Artists go on one-day hunger strike in support of hunger-striking educators

On the 120th day of a hunger strike launched by two educators, Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça, who were fired from their jobs in...

Report: Prisoners threatened with death, exposed to torture in Mersin

Prisoners in two prisons in the southern Turkish province of Mersin have allegedly faced maltreatment, physical violence and torture as well as being threatened...

Report: Turkish soldiers abroad ordered to spy on dismissed colleagues

Written instructions from the Turkish General Staff asks Turkey’s military officers deployed abroad to spy on former colleagues who were dismissed as part of...

Police wait outside Esenyurt hospital to detain woman who just gave birth

A group of police officers are reportedly waiting outside Esenyurt Eslife Hospital in order to detain a woman who gave birth late on July...

Gülen sympathizer stabbed by pro-Erdoğan relative in Belgium

İbrahim Anaz, one of the executives at a Brussels-based association sympathetic to the Gülen movement, was stabbed by a family member who is a...

Gülen: The coup attempt was an outrageous scenario constructed by Erdoğan

Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, who has lived in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania since 1999, has said a coup attempt in Turkey on July...

9 human rights advocates including AI Turkey director under detention

Police detained nine human rights advocates including Amnesty International Turkey Director İdil Eser at a hotel on Büyükada, one of İstanbul’s nine islands in...

61-year-old businessman dies from poor conditions in Elbistan prison

Kamil Ü., a 61-year-old businessman who has been under arrest for over 10 months due to alleged links to Turkey’s Gülen group, died on...

2 educators on hunger strike ‘held responsible’ for coup attempt

A court decision to arrest two educators who had been fired from their jobs lists the date of their crime as July 15, 2016,...

739 fired police officers suspected of Gülen links returned to duty

Seven hundred thirty-nine police officers who were dismissed from their jobs due to suspected links to the faith-based Gülen movement, accused by Turkish government...

CHP leader: Pro-gov’t ultranationalists will attack ‘March of Justice’

Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has said pro-government ultranationalists could attack a “March of Justice” he launched on June 15 to protest...

Fairy chimneys of Cappadocia used as gendarmerie stations

Fairy chimneys in the Cappadocia region of Central Anatolia are being used as gendarmerie stations in lieu of constructing new outposts in order to...

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