Journalist indicted over post on alleged beating of Erdoğan’s son-in-law
Turkish journalist Fatma Sibel Gürcihan has been indicted under Turkey’s disinformation law over a social media post that revived an unverified claim that Berat...
Turkey indicts 50 people, including dismissed civil servants, over alleged Gülen links
Turkish prosecutors have indicted 50 people in İstanbul, including 35 former civil servants dismissed by emergency decrees following a 2016 coup attempt, on terrorism-related...
Russian activist arrested after Turkey deports her to face trial over Ukraine war protest
A Russian activist who fled to Turkey after being charged over a protest of Moscow’s war in Ukraine was arrested in St. Petersburg after...
Dismissed Turkish soldier dies awaiting reinstatement ruling after coup-era prosecution
A former Turkish soldier who was dismissed by an emergency decree after a failed coup in 2016 died of colon cancer on July 3...
Özel-led party would rank first if CHP split, survey shows
A possible new party led by ousted main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Özgür Özel would rank first in a hypothetical parliamentary election...
Turkish state broadcaster accused of censoring question on jailed comedian, detentions during NATO press...
TRT, Turkey’s state broadcaster, is facing accusations that during a press conference ahead of the NATO summit in Ankara, it censored the live Turkish...
2 Turkish journalists briefly detained ahead of NATO summit in Ankara
Turkish authorities briefly detained two journalists ahead of the NATO summit opening in Ankara on Tuesday, Turkish Minute reported, citing Agence France-Presse.
The detentions came...
Turkish court sentences environmental activist Esra Işık to prison
A Turkish court has sentenced environmental activist Esra Işık to more than two years in prison for her role in protests against the seizure...
Senior PKK figure says narrow law on laying down arms could deepen deadlock in...
A senior figure in the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has urged Ankara to adopt legal measures to protect Turkey’s new peace initiative, warning...
Wife of deceased police chief says she received threats for questioning her husband’s death...
The wife of former police intelligence chief Zeki Güven, who died under suspicious circumstances in pretrial detention in 2018, said her husband was murdered...
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