Turkey vows to persists on censorship of Wikipedia
Ömer Fatih Sayan, the head of Turkey's Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK), said on Wednesday that it is impossible to grant access to...
Turkey’s gov’t seizes local convenience store over coup charges
Turkish government has seized a local/neighborhood convenience store, called Sezer Gıda in Mardin’s Kızıltepe district over alleged links to the Gülen movement and appointed...
Dozens of social media accounts blocked over postings on referendum frauds
An Ankara court blocked access to 40 Twitter, 2 Facebook accounts along with 4 websites over their postings on alleged government fraud in the...
Exhibition in EP exposes plight of Turkish journalists behind bars on World Press Freedom...
An exhibition at the initiative of three political groups in the European Parliament to mark the World Press Freedom Day features the plight of...
AKP municipality rejects leased cars with plates bearing Gülen’s initials
The ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP)-run Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality has rejected a leasing company’s proposal to lease cars to be used for municipal...
Turkish journalist under suicide risk re-arrested a few hours after release
Ayşenur Parıldak, a 27-year old Turkish journalist, has been arrested again a few hours after an Ankara court released her from nine-months pre-trial detention...
MEDEL presents Judge Arslan as nominee for Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize
Magistrats Européens pour la Démocratie et les Libertés (MEDEL) has presented before the Council of Europe (CoE) the application of Judge Murat Arslan, the...
Turkey seeks to lift main opposition leader Kılıçdaroğlu’s parliamentary immunity
A dossier that seeks to remove the parliamentary immunity of seven main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputies, including Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, has been...
VIDEO — A Turkish national abducted in Malaysia by operatives linked to Turkey’s Erdoğan
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A Turkish national was abducted in Kuala Lumpur on a broad daylight by unknown operatives who are believed to be affiliated with Turkish government...
3 years jail time sought for imprisoned academic, journalist Türköne for ‘threatening’ Erdoğan
An indictment prepared by an İstanbul prosecutor seeks three years sentence for Mümtaz’er Türköne, a political science professor and columnist for now-closed Zaman and...
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