Turkish authorities launch investigation into education union following academic boycott call
The Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office has launched an investigation into the Education and Science Workers' Union (Eğitim Sen) for allegedly “publicly inciting the...
Amnesty urges Turkey to end police violence, lift protest bans
Amnesty International on Monday urged Turkish authorities to end what it described as “unlawful and indiscriminate” use of force against peaceful protesters and to...
İstanbul Mayor İmamoğlu defiant after suspension from office and arrest
İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu vowed to continue his political fight after being jailed in a corruption investigation and suspended from office Sunday, developments that...
Turkish court arrests İstanbul mayor in graft probe amid protests
A Turkish court formally placed İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu under arrest as part of a corruption investigation Sunday, after a fourth night of mass...
DEM lawmaker slams authorities for disregarding inmates’ lack of access to proper healthcare
Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM) lawmaker Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu has criticized Turkish authorities for their disregard of inadequate medical care in prisons, pointing...
Colleagues arrested in post-coup crackdown victims of false charges, says veteran journalist
Veteran journalist Şahin Alpay, who was imprisoned following a coup attempt in Turkey in July 2016, has saidin an interview that many of his colleagues arrested in a post-coup purge were victims of trumped-up...
Turkey’s justice minister denies jailing journalists for their work amid media crackdown
Turkish Justice Minister Yılmaz Tunç has denied that any journalists in Turkey have been jailed for their reporting, despite widespread criticism that the government...
[UPDATE] Turkey’s controversial cybersecurity law officially in effect
A controversial new cybersecurity law passed by the Turkish parliament last week was published in the Official Gazette on Wednesday and is now officially...
‘Living in a dictatorship’: İstanbul mayor’s detention sparks anger
“We’re living in a dictatorship,” said Kuzey, an İstanbul shopkeeper, after police detained the city’s popular opposition mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu on corruption allegations.
The early...
Authorities detain veteran journalist in Gezi Park protest investigation
Journalist Ismail Saymaz was detained early Wednesday morning as part of an investigation led by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office into the 2013 Gezi...
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