İstanbul city officials among 47 detained in new crackdown after Erdoğan rival’s arrest
Turkish authorities detained 47 people on Saturday, including senior officials from İstanbul’s opposition-run municipality as well as the brother-in-law of the city’s recently suspended...
Turkey’s HDP submits motion for parliamentary probe of Roboski Massacre in 6th anniversary
Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Aycan İrmez has submitted a parliamentary proposal to investigate the Roboski (Uludere) Massacre, where 34 people were hit...
Turkey jails mother over acts ruled non-criminal by European court
The Turkish mother of a 4-year-old girl was jailed after a conviction based on activities allegedly linked to the faith-based Gülen movement that Europe’s...
Turkey’s hunger threshold extends lead over minimum wage
Turkey’s hunger threshold for the month of June was calculated at TL 26,115 ($657), extending its lead over the minimum wage of TL 22,104...
64 bar associations condemn Turkish journalist’s conviction as blow to free expression
Sixty-four bar associations across Turkey have condemned the conviction of journalist Fatih Altaylı, calling his prison sentence “a severe blow to free expression” and...
Turkish court upholds sentence given to police officer convicted of killing Berkin Elvan
A regional appeals court in İstanbul has upheld a prison sentence handed down to a police officer who was convicted of causing the death...
Dutch minister says 20 Dutch-Turkish citizens not allowed to leave Turkey
Lilianne Ploumen, minister of foreign trade and development cooperation in the Netherlands, has said around 20 people who have both Dutch and Turkish citizenship...
Court accepts indictment accusing journalist of ‘targeting public officials’
An İstanbul court has accepted an indictment seeking a prison sentence of up to three years for journalist Ayça Söylemez on charges of “targeting...
Turkey’s Kırşehir Governor Şentürk vows to occupy Mosul and Jerusalem
Necati Şentürk, the governor of Turkey's Kırşehir province, who was appointed by the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government led by autocratic Turkish President...
Turkish FM bashes Kazakh journalist for question over abduction scandal in Switzerland
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on Friday refused to answer two questions from a Kazakh journalist during a joint press conference in Astana, likening...
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