Police detain 5 people over Kurdish songs across Turkey
Turkish police have detained five individuals due to Kurdish-language songs played at events across the country, Turkish media reported on Tuesday.
The detainees included four...
Pro-Kurdish party discovers wiretapping devices in İstanbul headquarters
Saruhan Oluç, deputy chairman of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) parliamentary group, said at a press conference on Tuesday that four listening devices...
Court decides to remove judicial supervision measures on 7 journalists
A high criminal court in İstanbul on Tuesday decided to remove judicial supervision measures imposed on seven journalists who are being retried due to...
Turkey has largest number of cases pending before European rights court
Approximately 23,400 applications from Turkey are pending before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), making it the highest case-count country in 2023, Turkish...
Turkish woman jailed over alleged Gülen links attempts suicide a month before release
A Turkish woman imprisoned over alleged links to the Gülen movement attempted suicide on Thursday, one month before her scheduled release, the TR724 news...
‘Cinema for Peace’ urges Turkish gov’t to halt censorship, oppression in Berlinale
A group of filmmakers from Turkey, who came together in the 67th Berlin Film Festival (Berlinale) in Berlin, Germany, has called Turkish government to...
Turkish prison blocks delivery of Islamic scholar Nursi’s writings sent for inmates
Turkey’s Silivri Prison, known for housing prisoners jailed over Gülen links, has rejected a shipment of the writings of the late Islamic scholar Said...
‘I miss ordinary days the most,’ jailed film producer says
Çiğdem Mater, a film producer and journalist serving an 18-year sentence in connection with the 2013 Gezi Park protests, said in an interview that...
Turkish court sentences Fethullah Gülen’s cousin to 21 years in prison
A court in the Aegean city of İzmir on Thursday handed down a 21-year jail sentence to a cousin of Fetullah Gülen, whose teachings...
Video exposes Turkish soldiers seizing hundreds of sheeps belonging to Kurdish villagers in SE...
A newly emerged video footage in social media has showed the moment that the Turkish soldiers forcefully seizes hundreds of sheep allegedly belonging to...
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