Turkey detains 70 people over alleged Gülen links
Turkish police have detained 70 people across 20 provinces over their alleged links to the Gülen movement, a faith-based group accused by the government...
Turkish officer dies by suicide after suspension over alleged Gülen links
Gökhan Ünyeli, an officer in the Turkish military who had been under investigation for alleged links to the Gülen movement and was recently suspended...
Top appeals court upholds acquittal of police officers accused of killing minors during Kurdish...
Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals has upheld the acquittal of three police officers accused of killing 8-year-old Enes Ata and 17-year-old Mahsum Mızrak by...
Journalist sentenced to 11 months in prison for insulting Erdoğan
A Turkish court has sentenced journalist Uğur Koç to 11 months in prison on charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Gazete Duvar...
Renowned social anthropologist released from custody under judicial supervision
Professor Nükhet Sirman, a renowned social anthropologist who was detained by Turkish police on Saturday for her academic work, was released from custody under judicial supervision...
8 detained for hate speech targeting African students at northern Turkey university
Turkish police have detained eight suspects for allegedly using hate speech in social media posts against African students at a university in northwestern Turkey...
Syrians face dire conditions in Turkish-occupied ‘safe zone’: HRW
Turkish authorities are deporting or otherwise pressuring thousands of Syrians to leave the country to Tel Abyad, a remote Turkish-occupied district of northern Syria...
Defendants in Hrant Dink assassination retrial reveal tampering with intel
Veysel Şahin, a defendant in the retrial concerning the 2007 assassination of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, said in court that a piece of intelligence...
6 inmates held in cells designed for 3 in NW Turkey prisons: NGO
The Association for the Freedom of Lawyers (ÖHD) has published an annual report on prison conditions in Turkey’s northwestern Marmara region, which found that...
Turkey to launch retrial of teacher following landmark ECtHR judgment
A Turkish court is scheduled to begin the retrial of Yüksel Yalçınkaya, a teacher whose conviction of Gülen movement affiliation was found by the...
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