Family of jailed former police officer hasn’t seen him in 2 years due to...
The family of former police officer Ali Osman Kayan, a father of four serving a sentence for conviction of links to the Gülen movement,...
Female inmates subject to disciplinary action in Kocaeli prison for chanting name of dead...
A total of 15 female prisoners in Kocaeli Kandıra F-Type Prison were subjected to disciplinary action for chanting Kurdish slogans and the name of...
Turkish court rejects ailing philanthropist’s appeal for release from prison
The İzmir 2nd High Criminal Court has rejected an appeal from imprisoned 82-year-old businessman and philanthropist Yusuf Bekmezci to be released for proper medical care,...
Erdoğan files lawsuit against opposition MP for calling him ‘top Gülen member’
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has filed a lawsuit against a main opposition party politician who recently referred to him as the top member...
185 face detention over alleged Gülen links in ‘payphone investigations’
Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 185 people including active duty and former military officers as well as former military cadets due to...
1 worker died every 4 hours in occupational accident in Turkey in 2021: report
Turkey recorded 2,170 deaths in work-related accidents in 2021, according to a report by the Workers’ Health and Work Safety Assembly (İSİG), the Turkish...
Prison administration bans jailed Kurdish leader’s novel for ‘obscenity’
A prison administration in northwestern Turkey has refused to give a novel written by a jailed Kurdish politician to an inmate on the grounds...
Assailants dressed as police kill young Syrian refugee in ‘house raid’ in İstanbul
Amid a rising number of hate crimes targeting refugees in Turkey, a group of unidentified assailants wearing police uniforms raided an İstanbul apartment where...
Turkish court rules suspension of student’s loan for attending Pride March illegal
The Ankara 23rd Administrative Court has ruled that the suspension of a state-provided student loan due to a student’s attendance at a Pride March...
Father of former prosecutor who died while fleeing to Greece passes away while awaiting...
The father of İbrahim Gündüz, a former public prosecutor who died with his wife as they were trying to flee to Greece, passed away...
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