Turkish Twitter users call for release of journalist Avcı held in prison since 2015
Turkish Twitter users launched a hashtag campaign on Saturday calling on authorities to release Gültekin Avcı, a journalist who has been in prison since...
PACE welcomes release of opposition MP Gergerlioğlu
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Turkey, Thomas Hammarberg (Sweden, SOC) and John Howell (United Kingdom, EC/DA),...
Pro-Kurdish party members among 47 detained during protest against Turkish offensive in N. Syria,...
Turkish police on Monday broke up a protest that included members of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and the Democratic Regions Party (DBP)...
Kosovar officials involved in illegal deportation of Turkish teachers face 5 years in prison
Three Kosovar officials involved in the illegal deportation of six Turkish teachers to Turkey on March 29, 2018 face five-year prison sentences in a...
Pro-Erdoğan journalist, husband file complaint against 33 politicians, journalists on terror allegations
A journalist close to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and her husband have filed a criminal complaint against 33 people, including opposition politicians and...
Former teacher fired and jailed on Gülen links succumbs to cancer
Emin Köseler, a religious studies teacher who was dismissed from his job on alleged links to the Gülen movement and later jailed on the...
Wife of inmate suffering from cancer calls for her husband’s release
Havva Geçmek, the wife of inmate Hüseyin Geçmek, who is suffering from pancreatic cancer, has called on Turkish authorities for her husband’s release to...
Kavala demands retrial amid controversy over his ongoing imprisonment
Businessman and philanthropist Osman Kavala, who has been in prison since November 2017 on politically motivated charges, has demanded a retrial amid a recent...
Inmate with late stage cancer taken to emergency ward after condition worsens
Yusuf Özmen, a stage 4 cancer patient who remains in prison despite a medical report saying he is almost totally disabled, was taken to...
Independent journalists in Turkey increasingly worried for their financial security: report
Independent journalists in Turkey, who already work under difficult political conditions, are also increasingly worried about their financial security due to the country’s media...
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