10 briefly detained in western Turkey for protesting anti-LGBT public ad
Turkish police on Tuesday intervened in a demonstration in İzmir protesting the broadcast of an anti-LGBT public ad on TV stations, briefly detaining 10...
Court halts trial of MP in MİT trucks case due to parliamentary immunity
A high criminal court in İstanbul has decided to halt the trial of an opposition lawmaker due to his acquisition of parliamentary immunity in...
Turkish court orders former opposition MP to pay damages over parliamentary inquiry on pro-gov’t...
A Turkish court has ordered Hüda Kaya, a former deputy from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), to pay damages due to a written parliamentary...
Imprisoned Turkish jurist deprived of crucial medication
Gültekin Avcı, a former Turkish prosecutor and columnist incarcerated in İzmir, has not been provided the medication he needs and has suffered injuries due...
7-months-pregnant woman imprisoned for past month in northwestern Turkey
Hatice Avuloğlu, 34, has been held in an Edirne prison since mid-August despite being seven months pregnant, the Kronos news website reported on Tuesday.
Avuloğlu...
Google, YouTube accused of censoring Erdogan critics: report
Media outlets and journalists who express criticism of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are facing a noticeable decrease in their visibility on YouTube and...
Teenager arrested for spray-painting Atatürk monument in Turkey
A Turkish court arrested a 16-year-old who spray-painted a monument of Turkey’s founder, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, in the western city of İzmir on the...
CHP’s İmamoğlu acquitted of charges of insulting AKP district mayor
İstanbul’s popular mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu, has been acquitted of charges of insulting a district mayor in the city from the ruling Justice and Development Party...
Journalist receives threats for posting video of children taken to religious event in southeast...
Bilal Güldem, an editor for the pro-Kurdish Mezopotamya news agency (MA), has received numerous threats on social media after posting a video of a...
INTERPOL denied Turkey’s 2014 Red Notice request for Gülen: former official
A former police chief who served for six years as head of the Turkish Police Department’s INTERPOL branch said in an interview with the...
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