Yet another opposition leader in Turkey vows to send Syrian refugees back home
Another leader from a nationalist Turkish party, the İYİ (Good) Party, has vowed to send the Syrians who have taken refuge in Turkey back...
10 employees at opposition-run municipality detained over alleged ‘terrorist propaganda’
Ten employees at an opposition-run municipality in southern Turkey have been detained for “spreading propaganda on behalf of a terrorist organization” on social media...
Ailing 73-year-old found dead in his prison cell in Turkey’s Ordu province
A 73-year-old sick prisoner was found dead in his cell on Wednesday in a prison in northern Ordu province, drawing attention once again to...
Conditions for inmates at Turkish prison ‘much better than home,’ gov’t broadcaster claims
Elif Akkuş, a correspondent for Turkish public broadcaster TRT, spent a day with mothers and children at Sincan Prison in Ankara and said that...
Man extradited from Sweden to Turkey imprisoned for alleged PKK membership
A Turkish court on Saturday jailed a man convicted of membership in the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) a day after Sweden extradited him,...
Record number of jailed journalists globally, Turkey among top offenders: CPJ
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has found that a record number of journalists are currently imprisoned around the world, with Turkey among the...
Turkey’s top bar association holds ‘Justice Vigil’ for slain pro-Kurdish party staffer
Erinç Sağkan, head of the Union of Turkish Bar Associations (TBB), and other bar association presidents held a “Justice Vigil” in front of a...
Turkish appeals court upholds sentence of photojournalist who captured murder of Kurdish student in...
A Turkish appellate court on Thursday upheld the conviction of photojournalist Abdurrahman Gök, who took pictures of a university student being shot to death...
Woman serving sentence with 3-month-old daughter conditionally released due to baby’s health
Emine Coşkun, who was arrested in İstanbul on Friday to serve a sentence for conviction of links to the Gülen movement and was being...
3 dead after migrant boat hits rocks off Greek island of Lesbos: report
Three migrants died and 16 others were rescued off the Greek island of Lesbos on Tuesday after a dinghy carrying them from the nearby...
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