Grup Yorum concert for ‘quake solidarity’ cancelled by local authorities
Folk music band Grup Yorum has said on Twitter that a concert scheduled to take place on July 7 in İstanbul’s Sultangazi district was...
Turkish gov’t issues detention warrants for 99 people over ByLock app use
Detention warrants were issued for 99 people in Ankara and Isparta provinces on Tuesday on accusations that they use a smart phone application known...
German politicians slam smartphone application used for spying on critics of Turkey’s Erdoğan
Several German politicians have expressed anger over the use of a smartphone application developed by the Turkish Security Directorate General by Turkish expatriates in...
EU slams Turkey over rights backsliding, urges compliance with ECtHR rulings at UN session
The European Union criticized Turkey’s deteriorating human rights and democratic standards during a major session of the United Nations Human Rights Council on Tuesday,...
Mass detentions as part of crackdown on Kurdish political movement drew concern from UN
UN special rapporteurs in a joint letter sent to the Turkish government in May expressed serious concern about the mass arrest and detention of opposition members...
Watchmen attack journalists reporting on missing toddler in İstanbul
Three journalists were attacked on Tuesday by nighttime neighborhood watchmen while reporting on a toddler who went missing in İstanbul’s Beylikdüzü neighborhood and later...
1,022 Turkish companies taken over by state fund due to Gülen links since July...
Turkey’s state-run Savings Deposit Insurance Fund (TMSF) Chairman Muhiddin Gülal has announced that a total of 1,022 companies have been taken over the by...
Daughter of German pastor killed in Turkey faces deportation
Michal Canina Geske, the daughter of a German Christian missionary murdered in a brutal 2007 attack in eastern Turkey, may be forced to leave...
Turkey’s media watchdog starts enforcement of 7-day blackout on TELE1 TV
The enforcement of a seven-day blackout on Turkish broadcaster TELE1, which was ordered by Turkey’s Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) over its editor-in-chief’s...
Leader of main opposition vows to reinstate decree-law victims
Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), said on Thursday that he will reinstate former officials removed from their jobs...
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