Journalists accosted by police while covering a fire in Turkey’s Sivas province
Journalist Hüsnü Ümit Avcı, a correspondent for the Doğan News Agency (DHA), had an altercation with a police officer on Friday who tried to...
Turkish court adjourns trial that could unseat main opposition leader
An Ankara court on Monday adjourned until September a trial involving alleged corruption that could upend the leadership of Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s...
Journalist appears in court after covering allegations of corruption in judiciary
An editor for the Gerçek Gündem news website who reported news and shared social media posts about an alleged bribery network in the judiciary...
Turkey arrests 40 among 53 detained in latest operations over alleged Gülen links
Turkish authorities have detained 53 people and arrested 40 of them in operations across 19 provinces, accused of links to the faith-based Gülen movement,...
Turkish actor Pekin and 8 others arrested over alleged links to Gülen movement
Turkish comedian and theater actor Ömer Pekin and 8 more actors, who were detained during operations across 14 provinces in an İzmir-based investigation targeting the...
22 detained in northern Turkey over Gülen links, books presented as ‘criminal evidence’
Turkish police on Tuesday detained 22 people in two provinces in northern Turkey over their alleged links to the Gülen movement and presented books...
Journalist Sinan Aygül convicted of spreading terrorist propaganda for publishing an interview
A court in the province of Bitlis convicted journalist Sinan Aygül of disseminating the propaganda of a terrorist organization because of an interview he...
Merkel ridicules Turkey’s travel warning: No journalists arrested in Germany
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday mocked a travel warning issued by the Turkish Foreign Ministry for citizens visiting Germany, bringing to mind the...
Turkish invasion of northern Syria lacked international legitimacy, Germany says: report
Parliamentary State Secretary of the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development Maria Flachsbarth said on Monday that Turkey's offensive into northeast Syria last...
Lawyer for defendants in MİT arms transportation case gets 7.5 years in prison
The lawyer who represented defendants in a case that exposed Turkish intelligence agency trucks carrying arms to Syria in 2014 was handed down a...
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