Turkish President Erdoğan’s nationalist ally Bahçeli visits jailed crime gang leader Çakıcı
The Nationalist Movement Party's (MHP) Chairman Devlet Bahçeli, the ultranationalist ally of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, on Wednesday visited Alaattin Çakıcı, a crime...
Turkey’s top appeals court overturns sentences of 7 Cumhuriyet journalists
Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals has overturned the prison sentences handed down to seven former Cumhuriyet employees and ordered the release of five of...
Cancer patient not released from prison until too late is on his deathbed
Cancer patient Ümit Gökhasan, who was not released from prison until his cancer had spread to other parts of his body, is now on...
Turkey arrests pro-Kurdish mayor of Mersin’s Akdeniz district
Mehmet Fazıl Türk, co-Mayor of Mersin's Akdeniz district from pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP), was arrested by a Turkish court on Wednesday with charge...
‘Murder every day’: Turkish women fearful after treaty exit
Turkish women feel more vulnerable and legally unprotected since Turkey withdrew from a convention that activists argued helped deter male violence, according to women’s...
İmamoğlu’s advisor detained in expanding probe targeting Turkey’s main opposition
İbrahim Özkan, a political advisor to jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, was taken into custody Friday as part of a widening crackdown targeting the...
Austria’s Chancellor Kern says Turkish ministers promote ‘abolishing democracy’
Austria will try to prevent visiting Turkish ministers from campaigning for a constitutional referendum on the grounds of public safety and because they promote...
Turkish gov’t detains retired public servant for aiding families of post-coup victims
An İzmir man, identified as M.S., was detained by police on Friday for helping the overseas followers of the Gülen movement to raise money...
CoE: Imprisonment of journalists part of broader pattern of repression against dissent, criticism
Nils Muiznieks, Council of Europe (CoE) Commissioner for Human Rights, has stated in an observation report on October 10, 2017, which was released today,...
Kurdish politician sentenced to prison for calling President Erdoğan a misogynist
A former Kurdish parliamentarian jailed in on terrorism charges has been handed down an additional prison sentence for insulting President Tayyip Erdoğan, Reuters reported,...
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