Two Turkish men sentenced to jail for assault during Erdoğan’s Washington visit
Two men who pleaded guilty to assaulting protesters during a 2017 visit by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to Washington were sentenced to a...
Number of arrests over May Day demonstrations rises to 49
With 11 more arrests ordered by an İstanbul court on Monday, the number of people arrested for allegedly resisting law enforcement on May Day...
German-Kurdish singer Hozan Cane, jailed in Turkey, asks Merkel for help
German-Kurdish singer Saide İnaç, currently in pretrial detention in a Turkish jail, has written a letter to Chancellor Angela Merkel asking for help in...
Internet freedom continued to decline in Turkey: Freedom House
A yearly report by Freedom House on global internet freedom reveals that internet freedom continued to decline for the fourth year in a row in Turkey...
COMMENTARY — No more an open government in Turkey
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Turkey has been disengaging itself more from the world under the repressive regime of the current government led by President Recep Tayyip...
Turkish prosecutor confirms ‘tax-haven money traffic’ of Erdoğan’s close circle
Documents which allegedly reveal that Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s close circle received about $15 million from an offshore company called Bellway Limited...
Turkish security guards beat students protesting gov’t bill to split up Gazi University
A protest against plans to split up Ankara’s Gazi University deteriorated into a melee on Thursday, resulting in several injuries and detentions and gunfire...
Turkey’s ruling party spokesperson Çelik: Amnesty not on AKP’s agenda
Ömer Çelik, the spokesperson for Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) chaired by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said that "amnesty is not on...
Turkey sentences 15 Kurdish politicians to more than 100 years in prison
A court in southeast Turkey has announced its verdict in the trial of 15 local Kurdish politicians accused of terrorism, handing down sentences totaling...
IHD: Systematic abuses surge in Turkey with 50.000 rights violations
Human Rights Association (İHD) Diyarbakır provincial branch head Raci Bilici said that 2016 was a disastrous year for human rights abuses in Turkey since...
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