Turkish writer Eliaçık faces 7,5 years in prison over alleged ‘PKK propaganda’
Turkish writer and anti-capitalist Islamic scholar İhsan Eliaçık is currently standing trial on charges of disseminating propaganda on behalf of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’...
CHP deputy questions Turkish university rector’s call to kill democrats
Ali Şeker, a deputy from Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), has questioned a call in an article written by Prof. Dr. Ahmet Ağırakça,...
Turkish gov’t arrests German citizen for trying to join YPG in Syria
A German national has been arrested in Turkey for allegedly trying to join the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units YPG militia, Turkish media reported....
Turkish gov’t detains some 80 people over alleged links to Gülen movement
The Turkish government on Wednesday detained some 80 people across Turkey as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt targeting alleged members of the...
Turkish gov’t seizes pro-Kurdish paper Özgürlükçü Demokrasi, detains 21
Turkish authorities have taken control of the pro-Kurdish Özgürlükçü Demokrasi newspaper on the grounds that it has links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party...
Turkish woman jailed over alleged Gülen links not released despite serious health risk
Birgül Bulut, one the more than 17,000 women who have been jailed in Turkey in the aftermath of a failed coup attempt on July...
Turkish lawyer calls for arrest of former US district attorney Preet Bharara
The US district attorney who launched the trial of Turkish banker Mehmet Hakan Atilla for violating sanctions on Iran may think twice about setting...
Turkish banker Atilla’s lawyers ask judge to ‘temper justice with mercy’ in a lesser...
Lawyers for Turkish banker Mehmet Hakan Atilla, who was convicted in New York federal court in January of violating US sanctions on Iran, asked...
Report: Turkish gov’t has prosecuted 1,539, detained 580, sentenced 103 lawyers since July 2016
The Turkish government has prosecuted 1,539 lawyers, arrested 580 and sentenced 103 lawyers to long prison terms since a controversial military coup attempt on...
PACE co-rapporteurs Mikko and Evans to make fact-finding visit to Turkey
Marianne Mikko (Estonia, SOC) and Nigel Evans (United Kingdom, EC), co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), will be making...
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