Football fan sentenced to 11 months in jail for ‘insulting’ Erdoğan
Fikret Yorgun, a staunch Bursapor fan, on Wednesday received a suspended jail sentence of eleven months for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in...
Turkish Red Crescent sold second-hand items donated to it, journalist reveals
The Turkish Red Crescent (Kızılay), Turkey’s top charity organization, which is at the center of controversy for selling tents to another charity rather than...
Former human rights association co-chair murdered in İzmir
Lawyer Ali Aydın, a former co-chair of the Human Rights Association’s (İHD) İzmir branch, was killed by a blow to the head with a...
Social media campaign urges release of ailing inmate
Social media users on Thursday called on Turkish authorities to release Ali Odabaşı, the former legal counsel for the now-closed Zaman daily, who has...
Turkey both home to and perpetrator of transnational repression: report
The Orion Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C.,-based think tank, has published a report that found Turkey as both a perpetrator and a destination of...
Israel tells citizens to leave Turkey ‘as soon as possible’
Israel has told its citizens to leave Turkey immediately amid fears of reprisal after a deadly strike on a hospital in the Gaza Strip,...
Turkish student with chronic illness jailed for ‘insulting’ Erdoğan is denied medication in prison
A chronically ill Turkish student has been denied prescribed medication following her arrest for holding a protest sign referring to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...
Jailed Kurdish leader Demirtaş: Human tragedy unfolding in Turkish prisons
A human tragedy is unfolding in Turkish prisons, said Selahattin Demirtaş, the jailed former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), in a...
Arabic signboards being removed in various Turkish provinces
Turkish authorities have ordered the removal of Arabic signboards in a number of provinces where a big number of Syrian refugees live on the...
Report: Government’s surveillance invades social media privacy in Turkey
"State employees in Turkey have been forced to participate in an incrimination of their own freedom of thought and expression. State authorities, as employers,...
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