Main opposition party politician faces investigation on Erdoğan insult allegations
Turkish prosecutors have launched an investigation into Canan Kaftancıoğlu of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) on allegations of publicly insulting President Recep...
168 Turkish journalists appeared in court in 3 months: report
A total of 168 journalists appeared at hearings in their trials in Turkey from April to June, according to a recent report prepared by...
Imprisoned Kurdish journalist says in letter there is no such thing as press freedom...
Aziz Oruç, one of 16 Kurdish journalists who were arrested in June, said in a letter there was no such thing as freedom of...
Turkey’s top court rules Kurdish politician to stay in jail
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has decided to keep a Kurdish politician with dementia in jail, Agence France-Presse reported.
Aysel Tuğluk, now 57, was the deputy co-chair...
Jailed Kurdish politician dies after 6 years of imprisonment
A Kurdish politician who had been behind bars on terrorism charges for six years has died after being taken to a hospital from a...
Severely disabled Kurdish inmate dies in prison 10 days before release
A Kurdish inmate with severe disabilities in a prison in eastern Elazığ province died 10 days before he was due to be released, the...
HDP lawmaker asks parliament’s Human Rights Committee to investigate alleged rights violations in Turkish...
Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Meral Danış Beştaş has requested that the Turkish Parliament's Human Rights Committee investigate alleged rights violations in four different...
69.3 percent of Turks struggling to pay for food: poll
The majority of people in Turkey are struggling to pay for food as the rising cost of living has been eating into their incomes,...
Kurdish politician must urgently be released to receive treatment for dementia, lawyer says
A lawyer for a former pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) politician whose continued imprisonment was ordered by a Turkish court last week despite claims...
Man detained for links to PKK tortured at Istanbul police headquarters, ÖHD claims
The Association for the Freedom of Lawyers (ÖHD) in a press statement said Mehdi Mıhçı, who was detained for alleged links to the outlawed...
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