Visually impaired Turkish journalist given 11-month-long suspended sentence for praising Gülen
An Adana court on Thursday handed down a suspended prison sentence of 11 months to visually impaired journalist Cüneyt Arat for praising Turkish-Islamic scholar...
Visually impaired Turkish journalist’s letter shows he can barely survive in prison
A letter sent by visually impaired Turkish journalist Cüneyt Arat, who was sent to prison last July due to his alleged links to the...
Turkey’s intel agency to target exiled journalist, Erdoğan’s advisor says
Mesut Hakkı Caşın, the Turkish president’s advisor on security and foreign policy, openly threatened a Swedish-based Turkish journalist with murder on live TV, broadcast...
Turkey’s Erdoğanist militia HÖH changes name after Interior Ministry warning
The People’s Special Forces (HÖH), a pro-Erdoğan jihadist militia that emerged allegedly to counter a controversial military coup attempt on July 15, 2016 and...
Turkish prison investigates inmate for referencing religious figures in letter
The authorities in Ankara have launched an investigation into inmate Şerafettin Demir on accusations of disseminating terrorist propaganda in a letter containing references to...
Opposition MP submits 4th parliamentary question regarding abuse in repatriation center
Murat Bakan, a lawmaker from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), submitted his fourth parliamentary question regarding claims of abuse and mistreatment at...
Turkey again bans event to commemorate Armenian ‘genocide’ victims during WWI
The İstanbul Governor’s Office has again banned a commemoration ceremony scheduled for today in memory of the Armenians who were killed during a mass...
HDP lawmaker submits parliamentary motion for release of critically ill prisoner
Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) lawmaker Tülay Hatimoğulları has submitted a parliamentary motion calling for the release of a critically ill inmate in western Turkey's...
Ankara prosecutor’s office refuses to pursue case of female journalists allegedly strip-searched
A criminal complaint filed by female journalists who were detained on October 29 and claim to have been strip-searched at Sincan Prison in Ankara...
213 face detention in separate investigations over Gülen links
Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 213 people in separate investigations based in Ankara and İzmir on allegations of links to the Gülen...
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