Turkish police use excessive force during Nevruz celebrations in Diyarbakir
Turkish police used excessive force during Nevruz celebrations on Monday in southeastern Diyarbakırprovince, the TR724 news website reported.
Celebrations of the spring festival started early...
Police violence against members of anti-gov’t religious group sparks outrage
Turkish police in the southern province of Adana sparked outrage when they employed batons, plastic bullets and pepper spray in what many said was...
Prosecutor seeks 6 years for journalist who exposed nepotism at pro-gov’t foundation
A public prosecutor in Turkey is seeking a six-year sentence for journalist Metin Yücel, who disclosed documents that revealed alleged nepotism engaged in by...
Kurdish journalists detained in police raids in southeastern Turkey
Journalists Ertuş Bozkurt and Mikail Barut were detained on Sunday in police raids on their homes in southeastern Diyarbakir province, the Bianet news website...
Jailed businessman, philanthropist Osman Kavala back in court, remanded again
Turkey’s leading activist Osman Kavala, who at the weekend marked his 1,600th day in prison without conviction, appeared before court Monday for the first...
Critical Turkish journalist living in exile in Sweden brutally attacked
Ahmet Dönmez, a Turkish journalist critical of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) who has been living in exile in...
Turkey ordered detention of 63 people over alleged Gülen links in a week
Turkish prosecutors have over the past week ordered the detention of 63 people due to alleged links to the Gülen movement, according to local...
EP rapporteur slams Turkish gov’t over use of terror accusations to stifle criticism
Turkey is using broad accusations of terrorism to silence critics, said Nacho Sánchez Amor, an MEP from the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D)...
ECtHR rejects application on Turkish gov’t failure to find Yusuf Bilge Tunç
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has rejected an application claiming that Turkish authorities failed to carry out an effective investigation into the...
Turkish Interior Ministry to file complaint against opposition mayor over anti-Syrian remarks
Turkey’s Deputy Interior Minister İsmail Çataklı on Wednesday said the ministry would file a criminal complaint against an opposition mayor in southern Turkey for...
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