Daughter: Death of Turkish writer who fell from balcony during police raid suspicious
Şeyma Ölmez, the daughter of Turkish writer Mustafa Hikmet Kayapalı who passed away after allegedly falling from a three-storey-building in the Balıkesir province in May...
ARTICLE 19 submits expert opinion in Altan brothers’ trial in Turkey
International press freedom organization ARTICLE 19 has reportedly submited an expert opinion to İstanbul's 26th High Criminal Court examining the charges against prominent novelists...
Detained teacher severely tortured, his wife harrassed by Turkish police
Once an inspiring educator to his pupils, a Bartın teacher was detained with her hands cuffed behind back as a perceived enemy of the...
Judge, who imprisoned 517 people over alleged Gülen links, faces probe with same charges
Murat Taşhan, a Çorum judge who sent 517 people from 21 different occupations to prison over their alleged links to the Gülen movement, was...
Video footage shows man attacking woman for wearing shorts on İstanbul minibus
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A video footage, revealed by the Birgün daily on Wednesday, shows a man, Ercan Kızılateş, attacking a woman, Melisa Sağlam, on a minibus in...
CHP deputy Tanrıkulu not allowed to make prison visits
Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) İstanbul deputy Sezgin Tanrıkulu has not been permitted to visit prisons since his last visit almost a...
Ultra-nationalist Perinçek says Turkey’s judicial system living its golden age
At a time when the Turkish judiciary is under intense criticism for acting on orders from the government, ultra-nationalist Homeland Party (VP) Chairman Doğu...
PEN Int’l and ARTICLE 19 draw attention to deterioration of freedom of expression, human...
International press freedom organizations PEN International and ARTICLE 19 have called the attention of the UN Human Rights Council to the relentless crackdown on...
Turkish gov’t detains 930 people in post-coup witch hunt campaign targeting Gülen movement over...
A total of 930 people were detained across Turkey over the past week as part of Turkish government's massive post-coup witch hunt campaign targeting...
Pro-Erdoğan Turkish cleric calls for extra-judicial mass execution of ‘terrorists’: Do not leave anyone...
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A newly emerged video shows Metin Balkanlıoğlu, a radical Islamist figure within the pro-Erdoğan İsmailağa community, one of Turkey’s biggest religious sects, called on...
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