Turkey frees journalist Altan after European rights court ruling
A Turkish court on Wednesday released journalist and novelist Ahmet Altan after more than four years in prison on charges of involvement in a...
Inmate denied release despite 2 brain tumors and additional health problems
Lütfi Koç, who was arrested for alleged membership in the Gülen movement, has been denied release from prison despite developing two brain tumors and...
New indictment seeks up to 5 years in prison for jailed Kurdish leader over...
Ankara prosecutors have filed a new indictment for jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş, former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), on charges...
Turkey among countries to benefit from free VPN access to fight censorship
Internet privacy company Proton said Wednesday it would offer a network of free VPN servers for use in a number of countries, including Turkey,...
Turkey’s top court contradicts own ruling in case of teacher sanctioned for sharing peace...
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has found no rights violations in the case of a teacher who faced disciplinary action for sharing on social media a...
CHP MP submits parliamentary question about lack of education of autistic children
Republican People's Party (CHP) deputy Sibel Özdemir said in a parliamentary question that 92 percent of autistic children were not enrolled in school and...
Paralyzed woman sentenced to prison on alleged terrorism charges
A young woman was sentenced to six years, three months in prison for alleged membership in a terrorist organization, despite suffering paralysis of her...
Students on trial allege police mistreatment while in detention
Boğaziçi University students who were detained during a Pride March on May 20, 2022 said at a court hearing on Tuesday that they were...
Suppression of Kurdish language in Turkey is reflection of general intolerance towards Kurds: community...
The pressure on Kurds in Turkey to not speak their own language is a reflection of a general intolerance towards the Kurdish population, said...
Military vehicle kills 7-year-old boy in SE Turkey
A 7-year-old boy was hit and killed by a Turkish military vehicle in the predominantly Kurdish-populated Şırnak province in southeastern Turkey, Turkish Minute reported,...
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