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[VIDEO] Turkish court releases AI’s İdil Eser, 7 other human rights activists

An İstanbul court on Wednesday ruled to release eight human rights activists, including Amnesty International’s Turkey Director İdil Eser, who had been in pretrial...

[VIDEO] 14-year-old boy caught in suitcase while trying to flee Turkey’s post-coup witch-hunt

A 14-year-old Turkish boy, identified by the initials S.K., was caught in a suitcase in Turkey’s northeastern border province of Artvin while he was...

Iraqi PM al-Abadi visits Ankara in wake of Kurdish independence referendum

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi visited Ankara for talks with Turkish officials, including President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, as the Baghdad administration stepped in and...

Chief of Turkish general staff raises Ankara’s concerns over YPG during US visit

Turkey’s Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar expressed Ankara’s concerns about Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia in Syria during bilateral meetings on...

EP urges immediate release of prominent Turkish rights activist/businessman

Turkey Rapporteur for the European Parliament (EP) Kati Piri shared on Twitter a cross-party letter signed by members of the EP primarily involved in...

Oda TV editor-in-chief gets suspended sentence for ‘insulting’ Erdoğan

Barış Pehlivan, editor-in-chief of the Oda TV news website, has been given a suspended sentence of 11 months, 20 days for “insulting” Turkish President...

Amnesty International slams ‘show trial’ of human rights activists in Turkey

Amnesty International issued a statement on their website on Wednesday harshly criticizing judicial proceedings involving 11 human rights activists in Turkey, calling it a...

Former minister forms ‘Good Party’ to challenge President Erdoğan, AKP

Former interior minister and deputy speaker of the Turkish Parliament Meral Akşener on Wednesday launched a political party to challenge President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...

[BREAKING] 2 journalists, 1 teacher released after 416 days in pretrial detention

Atilla Taş, a former singer and a columnist for the now-closed Meydan daily, Murat Aksoy, former columnist of now-closed Bugün daily, and Davut Aydın,...

Turkish FM says doesn’t want Greece to become ‘safe haven’ for coup plotters

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Tuesday that Turkey does not want Greece to be a “safe haven” for plotters of last year’s...

US officials to visit Turkish-American NASA researcher jailed in Turkey

US consular officials were given permission to visit Turkish-American dual citizen and NASA researcher Serkan Gölge, who has been held for 15 months in...

Erdoğan regime to spend TL 5.5 billion for construction of 39 new prisons

The regime of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will spend TL 5.5 billion for the construction of 39 new prisons in various provinces of...

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