Turkey’s top court follows ECtHR ruling, finds uploading correspondence to judicial network server violates...
A week after a decision issued by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), Turkey’s top court has ruled that uploading correspondence onto the...
Two Turks arrested after glider crash off Greek island
Two Turkish citizens who managed to enter Greece illegally on a motorized paraglider were arrested after crashing off Evia Island, Agence France-Presse reported on...
Top court says former Kurdish MP’s rights violated over remarks about Erdoğan
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that Hasip Kaplan, a former lawmaker from the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), sustained a violation of his right...
80K inmates who benefited from temporary release due to pandemic to return to prison
A temporary release to ease overcrowding in Turkish prisons during the coronavirus pandemic that was announced in April 2020, affecting some 90,000 prisoners, will...
2 high school students briefly detained for insulting Turkish President Erdoğan
Two high school students were detained in Istanbul on Tuesday morning for allegedly insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkish media reported.
Speaking to Halk...
Prison authorities confiscate belongings of inmates who complained about overcrowding
Prison authorities in western Turkey's Denizli T-Type Prison confiscated the personal belongings of female inmates who complained about overcrowding in cells, the Bold Medya...
Wife of former public servant who died shortly after prison release alleges gross negligence
The wife of Caner Durukan, 42, who died from cancer shortly after being released from prison two years ago, has said her husband was...
Police whitewash Somali restaurant sign in Ankara, claiming colors ‘used by terrorists’
Turkish police on Friday whitewashed the sign of the Somali-owned Saab restaurant in the Kızılay district of Ankara for displaying colors used by Kurdish...
Activists commemorate asylum-seekers who drowned fleeing Ankara’s persecution
Activists in Vienna on Saturday commemorated Turkish asylum seekers who drowned in the Aegean Sea and the Evros River while fleeing President Recep Tayyip...
Jewish cemetery in İstanbul desecrated by vandals
Thirty-six headstones in a Jewish cemetery in İstanbul have been knocked over in the latest apparent vandalism of a Jewish burial ground in Turkey,...
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