Turkey disappointed at EU summit outcome: Foreign Ministry
Turkey on Friday expressed disappointment after an EU summit ended with a critical statement about Ankara’s rights record and no clear progress on a customs...
Turkish court sentences 3 journalists for allegedly insulting President Erdoğan
A Turkish court in İstanbul handed down sentences to journalists Hüseyin Aykol, İnan Kızılkaya and İhsan Çaralan on Thursday for allegedly insulting Turkish President...
Turkey’s autocratic President Erdoğan’s spying, profiling expands in Norway
Two more Norwegian NGOs with links to Turkish government were involved in what appears to be illegal profiling and surveillance of critics and opponents...
Turkey jails 81 in investigation targeting religious group, summons former minister for questioning
Turkish courts have jailed 81 people pending trial in a financial crimes investigation involving members of Süleymanlılar religious community including its leader, Alihan Kuriş,...
Turkish gov’t’s persecution targeting Kurdish journalists intensifies with new detentions
The Turkish government has intensified its crackdown on Kurdish media with repressive new measures and the detention of the pro-Kurdish journalists.
Police detained journalist İshak...
Turkey’s bounty offer to hunt down Erdoğan critics entices informant network abroad
A bounty offered by the Turkish government for information on critics and opponents of authoritarian President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has enticed an array of...
Turkish courts arrest 5 people over alleged Gülen links
Turkish courts have ordered the arrest of five people detained in two separate operations in Edirne province over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen...
380 people, including 2 minors, mistreated in Turkey in December: rights report
Cases of human rights violations in Turkey in December included 380 incidents of mistreatment, with 86 of them taking place in prisons, according to...
Court refuses to release journalist who photographed murder of Kurdish student
A Kurdish journalist who has been the subject of frequent judicial harassment since he photographed the killing of a Kurdish university student by a...
Jailed opposition mayor of Turkey’s fourth-largest city faces 402 years in prison
Turkish prosecutors are seeking a sentence of up to 402 years for the jailed mayor of Bursa, Turkey’s fourth-largest city, in an indictment accusing...
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