Turkey’s Erdoğan calls int’l rating agencies ‘fraudsters,’ says currency crisis will pass
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday called international credit rating agencies “fraudsters” while promising his supporters that “this too shall pass,” referring to...
Photojournalist who captured murder of Kurdish student in 2017 sentenced for terror propaganda
A local court has sentenced a photojournalist who took photos of a university student being shot to death by a police officer in southeastern...
Turkish journalist faces forced court appearance on insult, libel charges
A court in İstanbul has ruled that journalist Doğan Akın be brought by force to the next hearing of his trial on charges of...
Turkish prosecutor demands 15 years in jail for human rights defenders
The İstanbul Public Prosecutor’s Office has drafted an indictment for 11 people including foreign human rights defenders who were detained during a workshop in...
Pro-Kurdish HDP: KRG’s independence referendum, its results legitimate
"Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) independence referendum and its result are legitimate," said Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Central Executive Board, in a written statement released...
97 detained near Georgian border as thousands try to flee Turkey’s witch hunt
At least 97 people have been detained over the past 4 months while they were attempting to escape from Turkey’s post-coup witch hunt to...
Court rules to keep Turkish-German journalist Demirci in jail
A high criminal court in İstanbul on Tuesday decided for the continuation of the imprisonment of German-Turkish dual citizen and journalist Adil Demirci, in...
Conviction of Kavala is a blatant disregard for rule of law and judicial independence:...
The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) has condemned the conviction of prominent businessman and philanthropist Osman Kavala, saying the verdict is a...
Turkish journalist briefly detained due to article titled ‘We can stop the dictatorship’
Turkish journalist Ali Ergin Demirhan, an editor at the critical sendika.org news website, was briefly detained on Monday due to an article on the...
Mother of 6 under arrest as police fail to locate husband suspected of Gülen...
Meryem Şentürk, a Zonguldak woman and a mother of six, was arrested by a local court after police failed to locate his husband who...
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