Turkish court lifts travel ban against German academic Garip
A court in Turkey has lifted a two-year travel ban against a German sociologist Sharo Garip, who has been accused of spreading terrorist propaganda....
Turkish court releases İstanbul’s former Police Chief Çapkın from prison
An İstanbul court ordered the release of İstanbul's former police chief Hüseyin Çapkın in probe over his alleged links to the Gülen movement on...
Turkish journalist Mustafa Ünal faces 3 lifetime sentences over 9 columns
Mustafa Ünal, a veteran journalist and Ankara bureau-chief for shuttered Zaman daily has been behind bars for 508 days for published articles and Tweet...
ECtHR: Turkish gov’t violated freedom to demonstrate by imposing fines on demonstrators
The European Court of Human Rights (ECthR) has ruled on Tuesday that Turkish government has violated freedom to demonstrate by imposing fines on demonstrators...
Turkey’s Atilla says he has never conspired with Zarrab to evade US sanctions
Mehmet Hakan Atilla, a former manager at Turkey’s state-run Halkbank, who is one of nine Turks indicted in the sanctions-evasion scheme but the only one...
Turkish gov’t detains dozens of pro-Kurdish HDP, DBP members in İstanbul and İzmir
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) local office in İstanbul’s Kadikoy district was raided by the police early Tuesday while 55 members of HDP and...
4-year-old boy wounded after being hit by police car in eastern Turkey
A civilian vehicle used by the police hit 4-year-old boy Umut Ö. in the Aşağı neighborhood in İdil district of Şırnak province on Sunday....
Three Yezidi girls, left by ISIL in Turkey, handed over to their families in...
Three children from the Kurdish Yezidi community who were abducted by the militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in...
Jailed media designer Fevzi Yazıcı threatened by Turkish gov’t, put in solitary confinement over...
Fevzi Yazıcı, the jailed media designer and the art director of the now-closed-down Zaman daily, was threatened at police headquarters to admit having carried...
Jailed Turkish lawyer Arslan, award winning head of dissolved YARSAV, faces groundless charges
Jailed lawyer Murat Arslan, president of the now dissolved Association for the Union of Judges and Prosecutors (YARSAV), who won the Parliamentary Assembly of...
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