Kurdish press worker detained in dawn raid in Diyarbakır
Turkish authorities on Monday detained Zilan Gül, a press worker for the pro-Kurdish Yeni Yaşam daily, during a dawn raid on her home in...
European court rules Turkey violated ex-police officer’s rights over ByLock use
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has faulted Turkey over the pre-trial detention of a former police officer due to his alleged use...
Turkish Twitter users call on authorities to release mother of 11-year-old struggling with leukemia
Turkish Twitter users conducted a hashtag campaign yesterday calling on authorities to release Sabriye Dağdeviren, the mother of 11-year-old leukemia patient Hakan, who is...
Turkey’s top court rules university president violated student protester’s rights
Turkey's Constitutional Court ruled Thursday that a university president violated a student's right to protest by using a domestic violence protection law to obtain...
New investigation targets jailed İstanbul mayor, TV executive on allegations of espionage
İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu and his campaign director, both of whom are in pretrial detention as part of another investigation, have also been implicated...
Documentary details persecution of hundreds of military cadets over failed 2016 coup
A documentary telling the stories of military cadets in Turkey, hundreds of whom were unjustly convicted due to their alleged involvement in a failed...
Turkish gov’t sentences 1,655 people including 60 generals to life in prison over alleged...
At least 200 out of 289 trials of alleged putschists in Turkey in the aftermath of a controversial coup attempt on July 15, 2016...
42 protestors briefly detained after police break up Pride march in Ankara
Turkish police on Tuesday broke up an LGBTQ+ Pride march in Ankara and briefly detained 42 people, Turkish Minute reported.
Authorities had banned Pride marches...
Turkish authorities detain 286 more people over alleged Gülen links: minister
Turkish authorities have detained 286 people and arrested 154 of them in an ongoing crackdown on the faith-based Gülen movement, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya...
Millions of vulnerable refugees in Turkey-Syria quake zone
A devastating earthquake in the vicinity of the Turkish-Syrian border struck an area that is home to millions of refugees already battling desperate circumstances.
The...
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