Swiss Freethinkers bestows ‘Free Thought Award’ to jailed journalist, artist Zehra Doğan
Switzerland's Freethinkers, a nonprofit organisation for free thought, will bestow the Free Thought Award to jailed Kurdish journalist and artist Zehra Doğan, who has been kept in Diyarbakır...
Severe post-coup tortures by Ali Türkşen, a founder of Turkey’s new party, exposed
New evidences of severe torture done by Ali Türkşen, a former military officer who had been convicted in the Ergenekon case, who is also among...
Turkish court gives prison sentence to pro-Kurdish HDP deputy Beştaş over ‘insulting’ gov’t, state
Turkish court has sentenced pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Meral Danış Beştaş on Friday to 2 years and 3 months in jail for her...
RTÜK: 70 radio and TV channels gagged under the rule of emergency in Turkey
The High Commission of Radio and Television (RTÜK), Turkey’s state broadcasting watchdog, said 33 television channels and 37 radio stations belonging to 54 different media companies...
Amnesty’s Eser: Whatever we faced will remain an absurd memory
Amnesty International’s Turkey Director İdil Eser, who was released on Oct. 26 with seven other human rights defenders after spending 135 days in jail,...
Turkish gov’t detains and arrests tens of people over alleged links to Gülen movement
Turkish government has detained and arrested tens of people on Saturday as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt campaign targeting the alleged members...
Turkish gov’t seizes another company over links to Gülen movement
A court in Antalya province on Saturday appointed trustees to the management of the Durmazlar Group over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement...
Turkish government imprisons one more mother with her baby over links to Gülen movement
Turkish government, which has imprisoned 668 babies so far, has imprisoned one more mother together with her one-year-old daughter on Friday over her alleged...
Turkish prosecutor charges 4 journalists for reports over fatal terror attack in Ankara
A Turkish court has charged four journalists for publishing leaked official documents that showed police were aware of an Islamic State in Iraq and...
US claims sanctions evader tried to advance Turkish President Erdoğan’s business interests
US prosecutors claim that Turkish Iranian gold trader Reza Zarrab, charged in the US with violating sanctions against Iran, invoked ties to Turkish autocratic...
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