Turkey ordered detention of 89 people over alleged Gülen links in a week
Turkish prosecutors have over the past week ordered the detention of 89 people including teachers, lawyers, active duty and dismissed military officers and former...
Defense firm SADAT would be behind any breach of security in 2023 elections, CHP...
Republican People’s Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu said on Friday that SADAT International Defense Consultancy, a company linked to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, would...
Nearly 40 percent of women in Turkey subjected to violence, says HRW senior Turkey...
Around four out of 10 women in Turkey have suffered physical and/or sexual violence during their lives, said Emma Sinclair Webb, Human Rights Watch...
‘Music can’t be silenced,’ 1,134 musicians in Turkey declare in joint statement amid bans
A large number of individuals in the music industry, including singers, composers, lyricists, arrangers, music producers and managers, have issued a joint statement against...
Journalists to gather in Turkish cities to demonstrate against proposed social media law
Journalists will gather on Tuesday to demonstrate against a social media bill that was approved in committee on Thursday stipulating sanctions, including a prison...
Photojournalist who captured murder of Kurdish student in 2017 sentenced for terror propaganda
A local court has sentenced a photojournalist who took photos of a university student being shot to death by a police officer in southeastern...
Documentary details persecution of hundreds of military cadets over failed 2016 coup
A documentary telling the stories of military cadets in Turkey, hundreds of whom were unjustly convicted due to their alleged involvement in a failed...
6 detained in Turkish capital over ByLock use
Turkish police have detained six people in the Turkish capital of Ankara on charges of using the ByLock smartphone application, Turkish Minute reported on...
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...
Former police officer, summarily dismissed after 2016 coup attempt, dies by suicide
A former police officer who was summarily fired by a government decree after a coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016 took his...
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