15-year-old Gezi protest victim commemorated in İstanbul
Berkin Elvan, who was hit by a tear gas canister during the Gezi Park protests of 2013 and died in 2014 after spending 269...
Bus driver investigated for insulting Erdoğan by putting paper with his photo on floor
A bus driver in Turkey was investigated for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan by putting a newspaper with a full-page photo of the...
6 Turks illegally sent home from Kosovo on orders from Erdoğan: report
The Kosovar intelligence service illegally deported six Turkish citizens on orders that likely came from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan through Kosovar President Hashim...
Academic sentenced for insulting Turkish president also dismissed from university
Çetin Koçyiğit, a Turkish academic from Kafkas University, has been given a prison sentence of two years, five months for “insulting” Turkish President Recep...
2 German journalists leave Turkey after press credentials not renewed
Thomas Seibert, a reporter for the Berlin-based Tagesspiegel daily, and Jörg Brase, a correspondent for German public broadcaster ZDF, flew to Germany on Sunday after...
Turkish court rejects academic’s objection to travel ban
An Ankara court has rejected an objection to a travel ban imposed on an academic who was fired from his university job over the...
Turkish police fire tear gas to break up Women’s Day march in İstanbul
Riot police in İstanbul fired tear gas and plastic bullets to disperse thousands of demonstrators who tried to march along the city’s main pedestrian...
Tourists to be detained at airports if suspected of ties to terrorism: minister
Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu on Monday vowed to detain and deport tourists at airports if they are suspected of links to terrorism.
Addressing a...
15,034 women murdered in Turkey during 17-year-long AKP rule
A total of 15,034 women have been murdered in Turkey since the Justice and Development Party (AKP) came to power in 2002, a report...
Former deputy chief justice of Turkey’s Constitutional Court given 11 years
Former deputy chief justice of Turkey’s Constitutional Court Alparslan Altan has been handed down a prison sentence of 11 years, three months on charges...
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