COMMENTARY — Erdoğan has ruined the lives of 1 million people in Turkey
By Abdullah Bozkurt
The criminal investigations, prosecutions and trials in politically motivated cases on trumped-up terrorism and coup plotting charges have ruined the lives of...
Turkey’s high court orders state to compensate academic who received death threats
The Turkish Constitutional Court has ordered the state to pay Professor Baskın Oran TL 27,000 ($4,500) in damages due to the lack of an...
Erdoğan says Turkey may sue US over Atilla case
Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Turkey might sue the US over the case of Mehmet Hakan Atilla, an executive of Turkey’s Halkbank...
Radical Islamist HÜDA-PAR supports AKP member’s ‘new state’ remarks about Turkish Republic
Zekeriya Yapıcıoğlu, chair of the Free Cause Party (HÜDA-PAR), a political arm of the Kurdish Hizbullah and a close ally of the ruling Justice...
Pro-government mob attacks HDP office in Denizli, steals laptops, money
A pro-government crowd attacked a building in Denizli belonging to Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), officials said Wednesday.
Pictures from the scene appeared to...
Turkish court jails Facebook user over Erdoğan criticism
Turgay İnce, a Turkish Facebook user who shared friends-only posts critical of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, was arrested and put to pre-trial detention,...
Turkish gov’t seizes assets of former CHP deputy Erdemir over Zarrab case
An İstanbul court on Wednesday ruled to seize the assets of former main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Aykan Erdemir after an arrest...
Turkey takes legal action against 2 people, 5 dismissed over ‘hero’ T-shirt
As part of an investigation launched after Gökhan Güçlü, a suspect on trial for an assassination attempt against Turkey's autocratic President Tayyip Erdoğan on...
Turkey’s main opposition leader sells home to pay record fine for allegedly defaming Erdoğan
The leader of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, sold one of his houses in order to pay accumulated fines for...
Turkey’s largest trial of journalists opens on Monday
The first trial hearing is set to start on Monday against 30 leading journalists and newspaper executives in the case where the prosecutor demands...
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