Family says man killed in Ankara ISIL raid was unarmed, shot at close range
Turkish police shot and killed Muhammed Kavi during a raid targeting the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) before a NATO summit...
EU countries to grant 5-year renewable residence permits to asylum seekers
European Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee approved a regulation on Thursday that grants residence permits for all beneficiaries of international protection in the EU for...
Visually-impaired journalist Arat, jailed for 7 months, denied access to Braille books in Turkish...
Visually impaired Turkish journalist Cüneyt Arat, under arrest over alleged ties to the Gülen movement since July 2017, has said in a letter that...
[INTERVIEW] Governments’ use of digital technologies to threaten dissidents abroad creates climate of fear, oppression...
Dr. Marcus Michaelsen, senior researcher at the University of Toronto-based Citizen Lab, said in an interview with the Stockholm Center for Freedom (SCF) that understanding...
Ballistics reports kept from courts show soldiers accused in Turkey coup trial did not...
Ballistics reports that were long absent from one of Turkey’s main trials over a failed 2016 coup have surfaced nearly 10 years later, with...
HDP faces ban as Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals launches probe into the party
The chief prosecutor’s office of Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals has launched a probe into the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and asked for...
US ‘deeply concerned’ after Turkey detains Amnesty’s Kılıç
The United States on Wednesday expressed “deep concern” about the recent detention of Taner Kılıç, the chair of Amnesty International Turkey, as part of...
Kurdish Bas weekly paper stops print edition in Turkey due to increasing suppression
A Kurdish news outlet has decided on Monday to stop publishing its weekly printed edition in the country due to recently increased tensions between...
New case filed against Ahmet Şık over denunciation of Turkish state-run news agency informant
A Turkish court files of a new case against jailed investigative journalist Ahmet Şık show that the informant against him was a reporter for...
Turkish gov’t detains 556 people over alleged links to Gülen movement in first week...
The Turkish government has detained 556 people in the course of 52 police operations in 33 provinces across Turkey as part of its massive...
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