Man faces prison for social media posts ridiculing Turkish president Erdoğan
A man in Turkey’s eastern Tunceli province will stand trial on charges of insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on two occasions, the Diken...
Kurdish-language traffic signs defaced in eastern Turkey
Unidentified people have defaced Kurdish-language traffic signs in the eastern provinces of Diyarbakır and Van, in what appears to be a racially motivated attack...
Exhibition depicting removal of Greeks from Turkish island cancelled for being ‘offensive’
A planned exhibition portraying the 1964 removal of Greeks from Turkey’s Imbros Island has been canceled after it was targeted on social media for...
Twitter back online in Turkey after restrictions: report
Twitter was blocked for at least 12 hours on major Turkish mobile providers in an outage that ended early Thursday, following a flurry of...
Ex-minister confirms authenticity of evidence against him in 2013 graft probe
Erdoğan Bayraktar, the former Turkish minister of environment and urban planning, said on Sunday the evidence against him included in the case-file of the...
Turkey’s main opposition leader faces fresh probe over remarks targeting Erdoğan, İstanbul prosecutor
Turkish prosecutors have launched an investigation into Özgür Özel, leader of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), on allegations of insult after he...
Turkey should end investigation of women over shouted slogans, HRW says
Turkish authorities should immediately stop the criminal investigation launched into women’s rights activists for shouting slogans at a March 8, 2021 International Women’s Day...
Turkey sees 13 percent rise in minors suspected of crime
The number of minors in Turkey who were suspected of committing a crime increased by 13 percent in 2024, according to newly released statistics...
Article 19 calls for release of first journalist arrested under Turkey’s ‘disinformation’ law
The Europe branch of Article 19, a London-based international organization defending free expression worldwide, has called for the release of a journalist who was...
Detention warrants issued for 33 former TÜBİTAK members over ByLock
Detention warrants have been issued for 33 former the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) members over the use of a smart...
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