Two young men shot dead during attempt to cross into Turkey: SOHR
Turkish border guards have shot dead two young men trying to cross into the country from northeast Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights...
Turkey intensifies crackdown on Gülen movement, orders detention of 73 in 2 days
Prosecutors have intensified Turkey’s crackdown on the Gülen movement following the announcement of a new cabinet by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Saturday and...
UN, Int’l organizations become party before ECtHR in cases of journalists jailed by Turkey
United Nations (UN), international rights organizations, Council of Europe will become party in the cases of the arrested journalists in Turkey before the European...
İzmir hospital says paralyzed inmate who will have heart surgery fit to remain in...
Şerife Sulukan, 45, a paralyzed woman serving time on conviction of affiliation with the Gülen movement who has been admitted to a hospital for...
No ruling from top court in case of maid found dead in AKP deputy’s...
Although it has been 27 months since an application was filed at Turkey’s Constitutional Court regarding the suspicious death of an Uzbek maid in...
Journalists ordered to be kept in jail in Turkey’s largest press freedom case
In Turkey’s largest freedom of press case where prominent journalists and authors were tried on dubious charges, the court ruled to keep them in...
Man severely injured during Gezi Park protests investigated over tweets allegedly insulting Turkey’s president
Aydın Aydoğan, who was injured by a gas canister during the Gezi Park protests in 2013 and is now partially disabled, is under investigation...
Turkey wants Twitter to block account of AEI’s Rubin, Washington Post columnist says
The Turkish government, led by autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is pressurizing Twitter management to block the account of Michael Rubin, a resident scholar at the American...
Journalist Seda Taşkın detained by Turkish police in Muş province
Seda Taşkın, a reporter for pro-Kurdish Mezopotamya news agency, was detained by Turkish police in Muş province on Wednesday.
According to a report by pro-Kurdish...
Columnist fired days after vowing to vote ‘no’ in upcoming referendum
The contract of Doğan Media Group Posta daily columnist Hakan Çelenk was reportedly cancelled by the newspaper days after he sarcastically criticized government plans...
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