TV director jailed over Gülen links dies of cancer after belated release from prison
TV director Fatih Terzioğlu, 40, who was diagnosed with stomach cancer during his 21-month incarceration on terrorism charges, died on Saturday following his release...
Turkish court rules to release Cumhuriyet journalists Şık and Sabuncu
A Turkish court on Friday evening decided to release Cumhuriyet daily Editor-in-Chief Murat Sabuncu and journalist Ahmet Şık while ruling for a continuation of...
Turkish courts order continuation of all jailed journalists’ imprisonments
İstanbul 13th High Criminal Court in the notorious Silivri Prison compound and the 26th Heavy Penal Court at İstanbul’s Çağlayan courthouse have ordered the...
Phone scammers defraud financial expert saying Gülenists have her personal info
Aysun Mercan, an administrative board member of a Japanese bank in Turkey, is the latest victim of Turkish phone scammers, who defrauded her by...
CPJ: Turkey should release journalist Erkan Akkuş immediately and cease jailing members of the...
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) in a news alert issued Tuesday called on Turkish authorities to “release journalist Erkan Akkuş immediately and cease...
4 Turkish students allege abuse after nearly 3 months in pretrial detention for protesting...
Four Turkish university students who were held in pretrial detention for nearly three months for participating in a protest against a Syrian government offensive...
Zarrab says he resumed violating sanctions at Turkish President Erdoğan’s order
Turkish-Iranian gold trader Reza Zarrab, a key prosecution witness in the New York trial of a Turkish banker charged with violating US sanctions on...
At least 170 detained as police intervene in events marking 9th anniversary of Gezi
Police intervention in a demonstration held in central İstanbul by a group wanting to mark the ninth anniversary of the anti-government Gezi Park protests...
Jailed Kurdish leader Demirtaş: Human tragedy unfolding in Turkish prisons
A human tragedy is unfolding in Turkish prisons, said Selahattin Demirtaş, the jailed former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), in a...
Turkey blocks access to social media accounts of pro-Kurdish outlets, journalists
Turkish authorities have blocked access in Turkey to the social media accounts of several pro-Kurdish news outlets and journalists, the Dicle Fırat Journalists Association...
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