Pro-Erdoğan gang leader threatens European countries with violent protests
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Sedat Peker, a convicted gang leader and staunch supporter of Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said in a video that he can organize...
Jailed HDP co-chair Demirtaş says indictment violates his rights
Imprisoned co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Selahattin Demirtaş said in court on Tuesday that the indictment violates his rights as a...
Exiled Turkish lawyers blast Turkish Bar Association for its silence
An advocacy group set up by exiled Turkish lawyers has decried the silence of Turkish Bar Association (TBB) in the face of massive crackdown...
Post-coup victim judge succumbs to cancer after release from prison
Mehmet Tosun, a 29-year-old Turkish judge who was expelled from his job and subsequently arrested over alleged involvement in a July 15 coup attempt...
Court dishes out penalties for journalists who show solidarity with Özgür Gündem daily
An İstanbul court has dished out penalties for the prominent Turkish journalists who showed solidarity with the now-closed pro-Kurdish Özgür Gündem daily on Tuesday.
Veteran...
Woman reacts harshly against police who intervene in protest against husband’s dismissal
An İstanbul woman reacted to police officers who tried to intervened in their protest against husband’s dismissal as part of Turkish government’s post-coup witch-hunt.
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Captain says army chief was leader of July 15 coup council
A captain who is standing trial on coup charges in the southeastern province of Gaziantep has said one of his commanders told him on...
Translator at US Consulate in Adana arrested on terror charges
Hamza Uluçay, a translator who has served for long years at the US Consulate in the southern province of Adana, has been arrested on...
Artist given 2 years’ jail time for painting destruction in Kurdish town of Nusaybin
Zehra Doğan, a Turkish painter and reporter for the now-closed Dicle news agency, has been given a prison sentence of two years, nine months,...
Die Welt reporter says he was jailed due to his reports not social media...
Deniz Yücel, a Turkish-German journalist for the German Die Welt daily, has told a group of opposition deputies who visited him in prison that...
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