NBA star Kanter dedicates Trail Blazers’ latest victory to seized Zaman daily
Portland Trail Blazers center Enes Kanter, an outspoken critic of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the deepening human rights crisis taking place under...
Chief justice slams appeals judges for defying top court rulings on jailed lawmaker
Zühtü Arslan, the chief justice of Turkey’s Constitutional Court, criticized the Supreme Court of Appeals on Friday for failing to comply with the rulings...
Human Rights Watch calls on Turkish Parliament not to expel opposition deputy Gergerlioğlu
Any move by Turkey’s parliament to use opposition lawmaker Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu’s wrongful conviction for a social media post as a pretext to strip...
Turkey’s rights groups call for release of ailing 81-year-old prisoner
Human rights groups in Turkey have urged the authorities to release Abdulalim Kaya, an 81-year-old inmate who is kept behind bars despite suffering from...
EU official urges Greece to investigate asylum-seeker pushbacks: report
EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson during a visit to Greece called on the country to “do more” to investigate allegations that its coastguard...
Kurdish journalist facing terrorism charges goes on hunger strike in jail
Dicle Müftüoğlu, a Kurdish journalist who was arrested in May on terrorism-related charges, has gone on a hunger strike to draw attention to the...
Former district governors are being tortured at Ankara Police Department, former deputy says
Thirty-seven former district governors who have been in detention at the Ankara Police Department for the past eight days are being tortured and mistreated,...
Gov’t criticized for lack of transparency as allocation of billions in earthquake aid scrutinized
Following two powerful earthquakes in southern Turkey a year ago that triggered a nationwide wave of support for the victims, questions have arisen about...
2 chronically ill inmates contract COVID-19 from prison personnel in northwestern Turkey
Two inmates with chronic diseases have contracted COVID-19 from infected prison guards in northwestern Turkey's Sakarya Ferizli prison, Bold Medya reported.
A few days ago...
Court rules to keep former Zaman daily editor in pretrial detention
An İstanbul court has ruled to keep journalist Mehmet Kamış, the former deputy editor-in-chief of the now-closed Zaman newspaper who was arrested in November,...
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