Turkish court reinstates official fired during emergency rule in landmark decision
A Turkish court on Monday ruled in a precedent-setting case to reinstate a public servant who was fired from her job by a government...
Turkish court gives life sentences to 65 defendants from Naval Forces Command in coup...
A high criminal court in Ankara has handed down aggravated life sentences to 47 defendants and life sentences to 18 defendants from the Naval...
Diyarbakır provincial co-chairs of pro-Kurdish HDP arrested
Zeyyat Ceylan and Hülya Alökmen Uyanık, the Diyarbakır provincial co-chairs of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), were arrested today on the charge of...
No question of abolishing right to individual application to Constitutional Court: Turkey’s justice minister
Turkish Justice Minister Yılmaz Tunç has announced that removal of the right to apply to the Constitutional Court individually is not on the table...
Story of teacher-turned-butcher reveals extent of Turkey’s post-coup purge
The story of Cafer Altıkardeş, a former geography teacher fired from his job by an emergency decree who lost half his index finger while...
Erdoğan cleric says Muslims will have one state when conditions are right
Hayrettin Karaman, a leading theologian and issuer of fatwas, or religious edicts, for ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) circles and Turkish autocratic President...
69.3 percent of Turks struggling to pay for food: poll
The majority of people in Turkey are struggling to pay for food as the rising cost of living has been eating into their incomes,...
HDP Co-chair Yüksekdağ sentenced to 1 year in prison on terror charges
Co-Chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Figen Yüksekdağ has been handed down a prison sentence of one year for disseminating the propaganda...
48 trustees appointed to pro-Kurdish municipalities since 2019: HDP report
The Turkish government has removed from office 48 co-mayors from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), a left-wing party with majority Kurdish support, and replaced...
Protests, messages of solidarity, new arrests mark anniversary of İmamoğlu’s imprisonment
The first anniversary of İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu’s imprisonment was marked on Thursday by messages of solidarity from European politicians, a student march in...
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