Turkey’s justice minister denies jailing journalists for their work amid media crackdown
Turkish Justice Minister Yılmaz Tunç has denied that any journalists in Turkey have been jailed for their reporting, despite widespread criticism that the government...
Turkish asylum seeker died from torture prior to pushback from Greece: forensics report
Turkey’s Council of Forensic Medicine (ATK) has revealed the cause of death of a Turkish asylum seeker who crossed the Aegean Sea and was...
Pro-Kurdish party politicians detained following house raids in İstanbul
Turkish police on Wednesday detained 12 local politicians and members of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) shortly after a top prosecutor refiled an...
Jailed Turkish businessman Kavala: I’m waiting to see the face of justice
Prominent Turkish businessman and human rights activist Osman Kavala, who has been in pre-trial detention in İstanbul's Silivri Prison since November 2017, has said,...
İmamoğlu joins list of jailed opponents of President Erdoğan
İstanbul’s now-deposed mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu has become the latest Turkish politician or activist opposed to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to fall afoul of the...
28 arrested in mass operation against Kurds in Diyarbakır-based operation
The number of people arrested after being detained along with more than 100 activists, lawyers and politicians in a mass operation targeting Kurds across...
Ultranationalist issued threats, posted photos with assault weapons before attacking HDP office
Onur Gencer, 27, who on Thursday admittedly killed a woman in an attack on the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) office in İzmir, had...
Turkish gov’t prosecutes 146 people over social media posts in a week
The Turkish government has investigated 281 social media accounts and taken legal action against 146 users over the last week (Aug.20-Aug. 27) on accusations...
Death of Gülen-linked philanthropist sheds light on political prisoner treatment in Turkey
Mustafa Said Türk, a severely disabled Turkish man who was briefly jailed in 2023 over alleged ties to the faith based Gülen movement, died...
34 journalists arrested in less than a year in Turkey: report
Thirty-four journalists have been arrested for their work in the last 11 months as part of separate investigations across Turkey, according to the pro-Kurdish...
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