Turkish court gives 10-year prison sentence for pro-Kurdish HDP deputy Irmak
A Turkish court has given 10-year prison sentence to pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party's (HDP) jailed Hakkari deputy Selma Irmak on Friday.
Diyarbakır 5th High Criminal...
European Union slams Turkish gov’t over arrest of peace activist Osman Kavala
The European Union has criticized the arrest of Osman Kavala, a prominent businessman and activist, on terror charges, reiterating its call on the Turkish...
Faruk Akkan, head of Cihan news agency, jailed for 15 months in Turkey without...
A top media executive and a veteran journalist has been languishing behind bars for 457 days without any evidence indicating that he has committed...
Deaf and dumb man imprisoned by Turkish government over claims of ‘chanting slogan’
Kenan Keklik, a 54 years old Kurdish man, who is deaf and dumb, was sentenced by a Turkish court to 3 years, 1 month and...
Turkish municipal worker commits suicide following investigation over Gülen links
İrfan Bayar, a municipal worker in Kastamonu province and a former soldier who was wounded in a clash with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party...
Turkish TV network executive Muhammed Büyükçıngıl jailed for subscribing to critical daily.
A Turkish journalist and media executive has been behind bars for 301 days in Turkey over his subscription to a critical newspaper that was...
Parents of Turkish hunger strikers say police threaten them to halt protest
The parents of hunger strikers Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça made a statement to the press regarding police threats to halt the protests.
The family...
Turkish gov’t detains dozens, issues detention warrants for 60 people over alleged Gülen links
Turkish government has issued detention warrants for 60 people on Thursday over their alleged links to the Gülen movement as part of its massive...
Turkey’s 8 security personnel killed in clash with the outlawed PKK
Eight security personnel, including six soldiers and two security guards, were killed in an armed standoff between the Turkish Armed Forces and the outlawed...
İHD reports over 15,000 rights violations in Turkey’s Kurdish populated provinces in first 9...
Turkey's Human Rights Association's (İHD) Diyarbakır Branch has reported 15,647 human rights violations in the country's Kurdish populated east and southeastern provinces during the...
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