4 MEPs call for urgent release of university students arrested over Boğaziçi protests

Four members of the European Parliament have demanded that two students from İstanbul’s Boğaziçi University arrested for participating in protests be released immediately, according...

Turkey Tribunal: 2016 coup was a ‘gift from God’ for gov’t to purge independent...

The judges of the Turkey Tribunal, a civil society-led, symbolic international tribunal established to adjudicate recent human rights violations in Turkey, on Wednesday heard...

Translator at US Consulate in Adana arrested on terror charges

Hamza Uluçay, a translator who has served for long years at the US Consulate in the southern province of Adana, has been arrested on...

PEN International calls on Turkey to drop terrorism charges against Kurdish writer

PEN International has called on Turkish authorities to drop all charges against a Kurdish writer who faces more than seven years in prison on...

Interior Minister Soylu targets pro-Kurdish HDP, signals new operations

Turkey’s Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu has targeted members of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and signaled new operations against the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’...

11 city officials detained in operation targeting opposition-run municipality in İstanbul

Eleven city officials were detained Thursday in an operation targeting the opposition-run Beşiktaş Municipality in İstanbul over alleged bid-rigging, marking the latest development in...

Veteran journalist Ilıcak says ECtHR decision acquitted her of terrorism charges

Prominent Turkish journalist Nazlı Ilıcak, who was convicted on terrorism-related charges for previously working at media outlets considered close to the Gülen movement, said...

Turkey blocks X accounts of 2 pro-Kurdish news agencies over ‘national security’

Turkish authorities on Thursday blocked the X accounts of two pro-Kurdish news agencies, citing concerns over “national security” and “public order,” the Freedom of...

Jailed journalist Ünal: By arresting journalists you cannot save yourselves from Dec. 17-25 graft...

Former Ankara Representative of now-closed Zaman daily, Mustafa Ünal, who was standing trial after 419 days in pretrial detention, targeted the the corrupt government...

5 int’l rights groups call on CoE to urge Turkey to release Demirtaş

Five human rights groups have called on the Council of Europe (CoE) Committee of Ministers to urge Turkey to release Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtaş...
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