Khashoggi fiancee urges Turkey to insist on justice despite Saudi thaw
Turkey must keep insisting on justice for slain Riyadh critic Jamal Khashoggi even as ties with Saudi Arabia improve, his Turkish fiancée told AFP...
Sözcü TV taken off air due to coverage of pro-İmamoğlu protests
Sözcü TV, one of Turkey’s most popular pro-opposition news channels, was taken off the air at midnight by order of the country’s media regulator,...
Governor’s office bans annual Feminist Night March in Istanbul
The İstanbul Governor’s Office on Monday announced that no demonstrations or marches will be allowed to mark International Women’s Day in İstanbul’s Taksim neighborhood...
Opposition MP reveals struggles of woman serving sentence for Gülen links with 2 young...
A woman has been serving a seven-year, six-month prison sentence for conviction of links to the faith-based Gülen movement with her two young children...
4-year-old starts seeing psychologist after mother’s arrest
The 4-year-old daughter of a woman who was arrested for alleged links to the Gülen movement has started to receive psychological help after developing...
Turkey frees terminally ill lawyer, family say it’s too late
A Turkish lawyer suffering from late-stage cancer who lost his leg after receiving delayed medical treatment in prison was released on medical grounds this...
Top court rejects pro-Kurdish-party MP’s petition to reverse decision lifting her immunity
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has rejected an application submitted by a lawmaker from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) that sought the reversal of a...
Court acquits police officer who hit and killed 5-year-old with armored car in SE...
A Turkish court has ruled to acquit police officer İdris A., who caused the death of a 5-year-old boy in southeastern Turkey in 2019...
Erdoğan’s long arm: Deutsche Bank closes accounts of Erdoğan opponents without giving any reason
Germany’s Deutsche Bank has closed the accounts of three opponents of Turkey’s authoritarian President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan without providing a reason, possibly over dubious...
Turkish prosecutors drop investigation into alleged killing of Syrian refugee at border
An investigation into the death of Syrian refugee Ridwan Îd Numan El Ehmed, who was allegedly killed in November at the Turkey-Syria border, has...
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