Turkish cartoonist interrogated over President Erdoğan cartoon
A Turkish cartoonist was interrogated by the police for publishing a cartoon of Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Cartoonist Yusuf Kayaalp said on Twitter that...
University students using EU exchange programs to seek asylum, says Turkish Ministry of Education
University students who are leaving Turkey under the European Union's Erasmus exchange program are applying for asylum in European countries, according to a recent...
105K Turkish high school graduates haven’t enrolled in university amid economic crisis
More than 105,000 high school graduates in Turkey have been unable to enroll in a university this year despite being eligible, mainly due to...
Journalist gets 6 years in prison on terrorism charges
A Turkish court has handed down a jail sentence of six years, three months to a journalist on conviction of terrorist organization membership due...
Rights groups call Turkey’s new media law ‘dangerous, dystopian’
Human Rights Watch (HRW) and ARTICLE 19 have condemned the approval of amendments by the Turkish Parliament last week which they said introduce abusive...
Former general serving life sentence on coup charges dies in prison
Kemal Mutlum, a former brigadier general who was serving an aggravated life sentence on conviction of coup charges following an abortive putsch in Turkey...
Former HDP executives indicted for referring to WWI killings of Armenians as ‘genocide’
Eleven former executives from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) have been indicted on charges of insulting the Turkish nation for referring to the...
Turkey orders detention of 45 people over alleged Gülen links in 2 days
Turkish prosecutors ordered the detention of 45 people, including active duty and dismissed military officers and former military and police cadets due to alleged...
Some batches of cancer drug provided by Turkish gov’t were counterfeit, journalist says
Some batches of a cancer drug called Iclusig, which is imported to Turkey through state institutions and is used in the treatment of last-stage...
Turkish court acquits police officer who killed Kurdish student in SE Turkey
A Turkish court has acquitted police officer Yakup Şenocak, who shot a Kurdish university student Kemal Kurkut to death during Nevruz celebrations in the...
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