Zaman daily’s Ankara office given to Erdoğan media group without any tender
Pro-government newspaper Akit reported on Sunday that the Ankara office of the Zaman Media Group, which was seized unlawfully in March 2016, was sold...
90 percent of Turks struggling to make ends meet amid economic crisis: poll
Nine out of every 10 people in Turkey, which is currently in the middle of an economic crisis as food and fuel prices have...
Rights watchdogs: Turkey should immediately release human rights defender Osman Kavala
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the Turkey Human Rights Litigation Support Project in a statement on Monday called...
Turkey’s forensic council says ailing Kurdish woman fit for prison
Turkey’s Council of Forensic Medicine (ATK) has concluded that a 66-year-old Kurdish prisoner suffering from serious health problems, including two recent heart attacks, is...
3 more journalists arrested in Turkey
Three of six journalists who were detained in an operation on Dec. 25 were arrested by an İstanbul court, after 24 days under detention,...
75-year-old woman imprisoned for solidarity with prisoners suffers from deteriorating health
Hatice Yıldız, an ailing 75-year-old woman who had been sentenced to four years on charges of “financing a terrorist organization” because she sent money...
Woman fears sick fiancé imprisoned on Gülen links is victim of neglect
The fiancée of a man arrested on Gülen links said she feared he is a victim of neglect as he has lost an enormous...
Academic fired from Istanbul Commerce University for giving Kurdish assignment
Dr. Bekir Tank, a history professor at İstanbul Commerce University, was dismissed from his job on August 31 for giving an assignment to his...
Dismissed Turkish civil servant dies by suicide after imprisonment, sons’ life sentences
A 67-year-old man died by suicide in Ankara late Monday after years of fallout from a coup attempt in Turkey in 2016, including dismissal...
Family of inmate who died following surgery not allowed to see his body: İHD...
Eren Keskin, co-chair of the Human Rights Association (İHD), has announced that doctors have confirmed the brain death of sick inmate Ergün Akdoğan, who...
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