Turkey orders hundreds of detentions over alleged Gülen links in a week
Turkish prosecutors have over the past week ordered the detention of 273 people due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, according to local...
European rights court to review cases of Christians barred from Turkey over security codes
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has agreed to examine 20 cases involving foreign Christians who were expelled from Turkey or denied re-entry...
Turkey had 2nd highest incarceration rate in Europe in 2021: CoE annual report
Turkey had the second-highest prison population rate of the 47 Council of Europe (CoE) member states as of January 2021, with 325 prisoners per...
Turkey mulls jail terms for publishing unapproved economic data: report
Turkish economic researchers may face up to three years in prison if they publish unofficial data on indicators without first seeking approval of the...
Turkey prohibits Syrians from going home to see family for Eid
Turkey has prohibited Syrian refugees in the country from visiting family in northern Syria for the upcoming Eid al-Fitr, Turkish Minute reported, citing Voice...
Turkish court acquits Bloomberg journalists over article on lira fal
A Turkish court on Friday acquitted two Bloomberg reporters of trying to sabotage the economy with an article about the currency crisis of 2018,...
Syrian refugees in Turkey: political tool in crisis times
Turkey’s large Syrian refugee population has become a political football as an economic crisis overshadows next year’s presidential election and parties spar over sending...
Phone scammers defraud financial expert saying Gülenists have her personal info
Aysun Mercan, an administrative board member of a Japanese bank in Turkey, is the latest victim of Turkish phone scammers, who defrauded her by...
21 journalists detained in southeastern Turkey’s Diyarbakır province
Turkish authorities on Wednesday detained 21 journalists in southeastern Turkey's Diyarbakır province, Turkish media reported.
The detained journalists worked for pro-Kurdish news outlets JinNews and...
Court arrests 16 Kurdish journalists after 8 days in custody in SE Turkey
Sixteen journalists out of 22 people – the vast majority of them members of the press – who were detained in southeastern Diyarbakır province...
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