30 arrested for bringing migrants from Turkey to EU on leisure boats: report
Italian, Albanian and Greek police in a joint operation on Wednesday arrested people accused of profiteering several hundred million euros to smuggle refugees and...
Turkey’s ex-President Gül will not challenge Erdoğan in presidential election
Turkey’s former President Abdullah Gül on Saturday said he would not be a candidate in a snap presidential election on June 24, underlining that...
Erdoğan quietly acquitted in corruption case dating back to his time as İstanbul mayor
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has been quietly acquitted in a long-running corruption case stemming from his tenure as mayor of İstanbul, despite enjoying constitutional...
Opposition MP highlights plight of quintuplets with parents jailed on Gülen links
An opposition lawmaker has written a column drawing attention to the predicament of children whose parents were sent to jail in October on charges...
Top court finds revocation of passports based on gov’t decrees unconstitutional
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the cancelation of passports of people who were expelled from public service based on government decrees issued in...
Holding inmates far from families a violation of human rights, ECtHR says in Turkey...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on Tuesday ruled that Turkey had violated the right to respect for private and family life of...
Turkish journalist appears in court over report on minister’s private hotel project
A Turkish journalist is standing trial after reporting on a hotel project linked to the private company of Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri...
Turkish authorities restrict access to disaster-hit province, detain activists
The Tunceli Governor’s Office has imposed a five-day ban on outgoing travel to neighboring Erzincan, where on Tuesday a landslide at a gold mine...
Parliament’s Human Rights Committee failing to do its job, says opposition MP
Human rights defender and deputy from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu has asked in a parliamentary question why the Turkish Parliament's...
Erdoğan implies Nobel laureate Pamuk is a ‘terrorist’
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Tuesday implied that Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk is a “terrorist,” saying that the Nobel committee gave the prize to...
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