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Selahattin Demirtaş: an ever-present threat to Erdoğan

By Cevheri Güven Selahattin Demirtaş has been under arrest for four years now. In fact, he was released by a court; however, another court order...

Police raids target 182 over Gülen, pro-Kurdish and leftist ties

Turkish police serving detention warrants on Friday targeted 82 pro-Kurdish politicians, 76 academics and university employees and 24 activists. The country already has tens of...

Turkish journalist living in exile attacked in Sweden

Three men attacked critical Turkish journalist Abdullah Bozkurt on Thursday near his home in Stockholm, the Swedish-based Nordic Monitor news website reported. Bozkurt and his...

Ankara orders detention of 82 Kurdish politicians over protests against alleged Turkish support for ISIL

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has ordered the detention of 82 prominent pro-Kurdish politicians, with some of them detained as of Friday morning...

Turkish spy admits plan to assassinate Kurdish-Austrian politician

An operative working for Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) has admitted to being ordered to kill a Kurdish-Austrian politician in a bid to “cause...

6 Turkish lawyers arrested on charges of ‘filing criminal complaints of torture’

Six lawyers out of 39 who appeared in court on Tuesday after 12 days in police custody have been arrested on the questionable charges...

Cleric to testify after alleging 2,000 Salafist groups in Turkey are arming themselves

The İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office will hear the testimony of a cleric from a Sunni religious order after he claimed on a live...

Why are lawyers being targeted in Turkey?

The arrest of dozens of lawyers, the death of Ebru Timtik, an attorney who was on a death fast to support her demand for...

Activist mother jailed for her remarks released after 2 months in prison

Melek Çetinkaya, a rights activist who had been arrested on terror charges over her remarks on a TV broadcast during which she refused to...

Kurdish villager allegedly thrown from helicopter forcibly taken to military hospital, lawyers say

Turkish police on Tuesday took Osman Şiban, a Kurdish villager allegedly tortured by soldiers and thrown from a helicopter, from his home to a...

Lieutenant hailed as hero for resisting 2016 coup bid arrested on coup charges

A Turkish lieutenant who had appeared as a key witness during trials concerning a failed coup in 2016 and hailed as a hero for...

Kurdish villager admitted to hospital due to ‘fall from a helicopter’: medical report

According to a medical report that appeared in local media on Sunday, one of two Kurdish villagers who were allegedly tortured by Turkish soldiers...

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