Top court’s prosecutor asks for revocation of rulings in prominent journalists’ trial

The chief public prosecutor of Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals has asked for revocation of the aggravated life sentences handed down to five journalists...

Sweden must do more for jailed Kurdish leader Demirtaş: Swedish lawmaker

A Swedish lawmaker has asked the government to exert more pressure on Turkey in order to secure the release of jailed Kurdish politician Selahattin...

CoE Commissioner Mijatovic submits opinion in Kavala case at European human rights court

Dunja Mijatovic, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights. AFP PHOTOS Council of Europe (CoE) Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatović on Thursday...

Police fire tear gas at Kurdish deputies in Ankara

Turkish police on January 9 fired tear gas to break up a protest by a small group of pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) supporters...

JWF policy brief: How abusive counterterrorism laws deprived hundreds of thousands of people...

The New York-based Journalists and Writers Foundation (JWF) has called on the international community to urge the Turkish government to repeal the country’s current...

Turkey ranks 110th among 160 countries in The Economist’s democracy index

According to the latest edition of The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index, released by The Economist on Tuesday, Turkey was ranked 110th among 167...

Academic gets suspended sentence for signing peace petition

Istanbul Bilgi University academic and columnist for the Evrensel daily Esra Arsan on Wednesday was handed down a suspended one year, three-month sentence on...

Journalist sentenced to prison for reporting on parliament speaker’s sons’ offshore companies

Former Cumhuriyet reporter Pelin Ünker on Tuesday received a one year, one month and 15 day sentence and was ordered to pay 8,860 Turkish...

Erdoğan targets actress over incident at restaurant

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan slammed Turkish actress Deniz Çakır, who was allegedly involved in an incident involving a group of veiled women at a...

Owner of closed Kurdish daily faces 15 years in prison

A court in Diyarbakir on Monday accepted an indictment asking for 15 years in prison for the owner of the now-shut-down Kurdish daily Azadiya...

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