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Turkey: UN expert says deeply concerned by rise in torture allegations
Editor's Choice
March 1, 2018
Turkey: UN expert says deeply concerned by rise in torture allegations
UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer has expressed serious concerns about the rising allegations of torture and other ill…
Turkey’s Erdogan in row over ‘girl martyr’ comment on TV
Turkey
February 27, 2018
Turkey’s Erdogan in row over ‘girl martyr’ comment on TV
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been criticised after telling a girl in military uniform that she would be honoured…
Leading Turkish human rights defender sentenced for Twitter post
Editor's Choice
February 24, 2018
Leading Turkish human rights defender sentenced for Twitter post
A former head of Mazlumdar, a prominent Turkish human rights group, Gergerlioglu was sentenced for “disseminating terrorist propaganda”, a charge he denies. The…
Journalists in State of Emergency – 122
Editor's Choice
February 23, 2018
Journalists in State of Emergency – 122
Çetin Kurşun, a reporter for the shuttered Kurdish-language newspaper Azadiya Welat, was imprisoned pending trial on February 21, 2018, on the charge…
Erdoğan: Turkey foiled Syrian move into Afrin after Putin talks
Turkey
February 21, 2018
Erdoğan: Turkey foiled Syrian move into Afrin after Putin talks
Turkey thwarted a possible deployment of Syrian government troops into the northwest Afrin region after talks with Russian President Vladimir…
786 people detained to date over critical stance on Afrin offensive
Media Freedom
February 20, 2018
786 people detained to date over critical stance on Afrin offensive
Turkey’s Interior Ministry on Monday announced that 474 people have been detained on terror charges due to their posts on…
Erdoğan, Putin discuss Turkey’s operation in Syria by phone
World
February 19, 2018
Erdoğan, Putin discuss Turkey’s operation in Syria by phone
The Turkish and Russian presidents on Monday discussed Turkey’s ongoing operation in northwest Syria and the establishment of new observation…
[OPINION] Turkey raising a new army against NATO
Opinion
February 18, 2018
[OPINION] Turkey raising a new army against NATO
Against the backdrop of a dangerously expansionist and aggressive mood in Turkey with nationalist euphoria and religious zealotry reaching a…