Social media campaign urges release of purged military officer suffering from MS
Social media users are calling on Turkish authorities to release Mehmet Gürler, a former military officer suffering from advanced multiple sclerosis (MS), from prison.
The...
Police confiscate Nelson Mandela book and others, detain publisher at book fair in southeastern...
Police raided the Diyarbakır 8th Book Fair on its fourth day, confiscating copies of five books and detaining a publisher, the Artı Gerçek news...
Disinformation law used to punish Turkish journalist reporting on earthquake response
Turkish journalist Yüsra Batıhan, who reported on alleged failures in the government’s response to the February 2023 earthquakes, is facing charges under the country’s...
Gov’t, media colluded to frame Gülen movement as terrorist: pro-Erdoğan journalist
Rasim Ozan Kütahyalı, a close confidant of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and a journalist who describes himself as the president’s “spin-doctor,” revealed the...
Turkey’s former opposition leader charged again, faces up to 65 years in prison
New criminal charges have been filed against Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the former leader of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), who now faces a...
Turkish forest campaigner named to BBC’s 100 Women 2024 list
Nejla Işık, a Turkish village head and forest campaigner who has led a five-year struggle against deforestation designed to enable mining activities in western...
Koza-İpek Holding, affiliates seized over Gülen links transferred to sovereign wealth fund
Twelve companies, including Koza-İpek Holding, its affiliates and a luxury residence belonging to the İpek family seized by the Turkish government in 2015 over...
Int’l delegation seeks permission from Turkey’s Justice Ministry to meet with jailed PKK leader
An international delegation including lawmakers from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) in Turkey has applied to the Justice Ministry for...
Indictment seeks up to 3 years for famous mountain climber for spreading ‘disinformation’
An indictment drafted by İstanbul prosecutors seeks a prison sentence of up to three years for Nasuh Mahruki, Turkey’s most famous mountain climber and...
Another Kurdish mayor faces removal from office after top appeals court ruling
A mayor from Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish party faces removal from office after the Supreme Court of Appeals reversed a 2023 lower court decision that...
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