Right violations increase in Turkish prisons as inmates forced to quarantine for months in...
Major violations of prisoners' rights have been occurring in large quarantine cells, where up to 30 inmates are forced to live together for months,...
Twitter flags Turkish interior minister’s tweets targeting LGBT community: report
Twitter has restricted access to two recent tweets by Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu that referred to LGBT people as “perverts,” saying the tweets...
Turkish court releases 6 including German journalist Meşale Tolu
An İstanbul court on Monday released German journalist Meşale Tolu along with five others on judicial probation, Cumhuriyet reported.
Tolu, who was detained in April...
Turkey jails another 63 former police officers over mobile app
Another 63 police officers who were earlier dismissed from profession have been put under arrest over their alleged use of ByLock smartphone application. Turkish authorities...
Turkey blocks access to online game platform Roblox
Turkish authorities have blocked access to Roblox, a popular online game platform, shortly after imposing a similar ban on Instagram, Turkish Minute reported on...
Critical Saudi journalist Khashoggi goes missing in Turkey
Friends and relatives of Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington-based Saudi journalist known for being a vocal critic of the Saudi leadership, said that they lost...
Turkish police detain 6 members of Boydak family due to Bank Asya account
Turkish police teams on Thursday detained six members of the Boydak family, prominent industrialists from the Central Anatolian city of Kayseri, on the grounds...
Turkish ambassador draws ire as she implies Gülen-affiliated schools in Macedonia raise terrorists
Turkish Ambassador to Macedonia Tülin Betül Kara has drawn ire following remarks she made last week that shocked the country about schools linked to...
Top court overturns sentence of journalist convicted under ‘disinformation’ law
In a landmark decision, Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals has overturned the conviction of a journalist who was the first in Turkey to be...
Ankara’s requests for Swiss assistance against Turkish expats on the rise: report
Swiss authorities have been asked to take action against social media commentary that Turkey perceives as defamatory or sympathetic to terrorist groups, the Swissinfo...
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