Academic gets suspended sentence for signing peace petition
Istanbul Bilgi University academic and columnist for the Evrensel daily Esra Arsan on Wednesday was handed down a suspended one year, three-month sentence on...
Journalist sentenced to prison for reporting on parliament speaker’s sons’ offshore companies
Former Cumhuriyet reporter Pelin Ünker on Tuesday received a one year, one month and 15 day sentence and was ordered to pay 8,860 Turkish...
Erdoğan targets actress over incident at restaurant
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan slammed Turkish actress Deniz Çakır, who was allegedly involved in an incident involving a group of veiled women at a...
Owner of closed Kurdish daily faces 15 years in prison
A court in Diyarbakir on Monday accepted an indictment asking for 15 years in prison for the owner of the now-shut-down Kurdish daily Azadiya...
Former deputy arrested shortly after his release
Former Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Eren Erdem, who was released pending trial yesterday, was arrested again by an İstanbul court today.
The İstanbul Chief...
Turkish prison banned all communication for Gülen inmates for nearly 2 years
For 565 days, Turkish authorities cut off all communication and banned the delivery of letters and other messages to and from suspected members of...
112 journalists given various jail sentences in Turkey in 2018
A total of 520 journalists appeared in court in 2018, and 112 of them were given jail sentences of varying durations including aggravated life,...
260,144 people jailed in Turkey’s overcrowded prisons
According to recent data released by Turkish Justice Minister Abdülhamit Gül, 260,144 people are jailed in the country’s 385 overcrowded prisons, with 57,710 inmates...
Abducted by Turkish intelligence in Baku, Gülenist teacher put in pre-trial detention in Ankara:...
Mehmet Gelen, a Turkish teacher who was reportedly abducted in Baku early on Saturday morning, turns out to have been forcibly returned to...
80-year-old Kurdish man dies of heart attack during trial
İbrahim Akbaba, an 80-year-old Kurdish man, died of a heart attack on Saturday in Edirne F Type Prison.
Akbaba, a Kurdish citizen who was accused...
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