EU rapporteur slams detention of stand-up comedian in Turkey over joke
European Parliament Turkey rapporteur Nacho Sanchez Amor on Friday condemned the brief detention of a stand-up comedian as “deeply alarming” after Turkish authorities launched an...
CPJ condemns threats against reporter made by local Turkish mayor
Threats issued by Mümin Erol, mayor of Tatvan in the eastern Turkish province of Bitlis, against journalist Sinan Aygül and praise for the bodyguards...
Turkey ranks 5th in world index measuring prevalence of modern slavery
There are more than 1.3 million people living in modern slavery in Turkey, which ranks fifth among 151 countries in which modern slavery is...
AKP-appointed mayor denies Kurdish author a hearse, leaves coffin on roadside
The body of Zeynel Abidin Han, a Kurdish author, poet and translator who died in Berlin on Feb. 26 and was to be buried...
Turkish gov’t sentences 4 more military officers to aggravated life imprisonments over coup attempt
An Ankara court has sentenced four more military officers to aggravated life imprisonment on Thursday for their alleged involvement in the controversial coup attempt...
Turkey sentences founding member of Kurdish women’s association to more than 7 years in...
A Diyarbakır court has sentenced Narin Gezgör, a founding member of the Rosa Women’s Association, a Kurdish women’s rights group, to seven years, six...
Germany charges 4 with illegally selling spyware to Turkey
German prosecutors have charged four former company executives with illegally selling software to Turkey’s secret services to spy on the country’s opposition, Agence France-Presse...
Turkish media worker Zafer Özsoy faces 3 life sentences with no evidence
A Turkish media worker, who has been behind bars for 478 days, faces three consecutive life sentences and additional 15 years in jail on...
Turkish forensic authority says jailed opposition mayor can remain in prison despite cancer risk
The Turkish Council of Forensic Medicine (ATK) said Murat Çalık, the jailed opposition mayor of İstanbul’s Beylikdüzü district who faces a risk of lymphoma...
42 inmates test positive for COVID-19 in Turkey’s Düzce Prison as cases soar
Forty-two inmates out of 45 who were tested have been diagnosed with COVID-19 in Turkey’s Düzce Prison as cases countrywide have skyrocketed, reaching 2,024,601...
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Throughout the year Turkey continued...
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