Diyarbakır provincial co-chairs of pro-Kurdish HDP arrested
Zeyyat Ceylan and Hülya Alökmen Uyanık, the Diyarbakır provincial co-chairs of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), were arrested today on the charge of...
COMMENTARY — Jihadists who decapitated priests in Syria got help from Turkey’s intelligence
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) had willingly and deliberately helped known Jihadists of Russian nationals who decapitated Aleppo’s Greek Orthodox Bishop Boulos...
Donations collected for earthquake victims found abandoned in municipal storage room
Donations collected by Istanbul’s Üsküdar Municipality to be sent to Turkey’s earthquake zones have been sitting in a makeshift storage room for the past...
Turkish lawyers continue to be imprisoned for doing their jobs: American Bar Association
In a statement on the occasion of Lawyers’ Day in Turkey, the American Bar Association said Turkish lawyers continue to be arrested, charged, tried...
Press groups call on Turkey’s top court to annul controversial media law article
Press organizations in Turkey have called on the country’s Constitutional Court to annul a controversial article of a media law which they say is...
Journalist Nur Ener behind bars in Turkey for reporting on rights violations
A young woman journalist who reported about rights violations in Turkey languishes behind prison bars for 245 days in Turkey while prosecutor who asked...
Covert deal hints Sweden traded release of Swedish reporter for crackdown on exiled Turkish...
Sweden may have quietly agreed to disrupt the activities of Turkish journalists living in exile within its borders in exchange for the release of...
Calls for release intensify as ailing Turkish inmate faces urgent surgery
Social media users on Wednesday called on Turkish authorities to release Rukiye Çoygar, an ailing prisoner who is suffering from a fissure in her...
Turkey arrests Kurdish journalist for alleged links to terrorism
A court in southeastern Turkey has ruled to arrest Selahattin Kaygusuz, a Kurdish journalist who was detained last week for alleged membership in a...
Turkish government to set up directorate to inspect social media posts for disinformation
The “Social Media Directorate,” a body that would inspect social media posts for disinformation, will be established under a new law to be proposed...
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