Turkish communication authority to have power to block social media on national security grounds
A new draft regulation would give Turkey’s top telecom authority the power to block access to social media platforms like Facebook, X, WhatsApp and...
Turkish digital platform removes the movie ‘No’ from lineup as presidential referendum nears
Turkish digital platform Digitürk has removed the movie “No,” which tells the story of a plebiscite in Chile in 1988 on the removal of...
Regional appeals court finds violation in bans on 2022 Women’s Day march in İstanbul:...
The İstanbul Regional Court of Appeals has found a rights violation in bans imposed on a march in 2022 to mark International Women’s Day...
Top court lifts bar on damages claims by civil servants reinstated after post-coup dismissals
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has struck down a legal barrier that prevented public employees who were dismissed under emergency decrees during the state of emergency...
Jailed Kurdish politician dies after 6 years of imprisonment
A Kurdish politician who had been behind bars on terrorism charges for six years has died after being taken to a hospital from a...
COMMENTARY – Saga of Dutch journalist tells the tale of Turkey
By Abdullah Bozkurt
There is no shortage of examples about how the Turkish government scapegoats innocent people for the problems it has created in an...
Former governor arrested in probe into disappearance of Kurdish student
A Turkish court has jailed former Tunceli governor Tuncay Sonel on charges including evidence tampering in a long-running investigation into the 2020 disappearance of...
Germany says Erdoğan’s spying allegation against journalist absurd
After Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called German daily Die Welt’s Turkey reporter Deniz Yücel a “German agent” who hid in the German...
Turkish court hands down 27-year sentence to exiled journalist Dündar
A Turkish court on Wednesday handed down a prison sentence of 27 years, six months to exiled journalist Can Dündar in a trial concerning...
US State Department highlights Turkish government’s violations of religious rights in its 2019 report
The US State Department highlighted the massive violations of religious freedom and rights by the Turkish government in its annual International Religious Freedom Report,...
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