Prosecutors launch probe targeting people who photographed İmamoğlu trial
Turkish prosecutors on Tuesday launched a second criminal investigation in as many days stemming from the corruption trial of jailed İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu,...
Kurdish villagers terrorized at military checkpoint in SE Turkey
A video circulating on social media showed a group of Kurdish villagers being verbally harassed and threatened by soldiers at a checkpoint in the...
Police intervene against pro-Kurdish party executives, MPs over protest outside HDP headquarters
Lawmakers and executives from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) have been subjected to violence and threats by police officers in front of party...
Post-coup purge in Turkey leaves children parentless after mother and father are put behind...
Turkey’s post-coup purge is continuing to hit children, leaving them parentless in myriad cases, shattering their families, disrupting their education and upending their emotional...
Turkish police briefly detain teen over ‘Kurdistan’ T-shirt, ill-treatment alleged
Police in southeastern Turkey briefly detained and allegedly beat a 15-year-old boy for wearing a T-shirt bearing the word “Kurdistan” on Tuesday, the Numedya...
Woman demanding justice in political murder case faces prison for insulting Erdoğan
Emine Şenyaşar, who has been demanding justice for three of her family members murdered by people connected to a lawmaker from Turkey’s ruling Justice...
Former intel official says Turkish intel agency abducts critics from Africa, Central Asia by...
Associate Professor Ali Burak Darıcılı, an intelligence expert and former official at Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT), has said the organization has forcibly returned...
Turkey orders detention of 47 military personnel over suspected Gülen links
Turkish authorities on Saturday ordered the detention of 47 military personnel including 34 active duty officers as part of a large-scale crackdown on the...
Turkish bar associations, press groups condemn arrest of journalists as ‘alarming’
Bar associations and press freedom groups in Turkey have condemned the arrest of journalists Alican Uludağ and İsmail Arı, warning that their jailing poses...
‘Coup’ trial for Turkey’s prominent journalists starts today
Seventeen suspects, including Turkey’s renowned journalists Nazlı Ilıcak, Ahmet Altan and Mehmet Altan, are ready to appear before an İstanbul court on Monday for...
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