Araç’s mother: ‘My son didn’t commit suicide, he was killed by police’
Azize Araç, mother of Murat Araç, who have allegedly committed suicide by jumping out of a police headquarters' window while under police custody in...
Turkish prosecutor demands life sentences for Feb. 28 post-modern coup generals
A Turkish prosecutor requested life imprisonment for 60 suspects, including a former military chief and his deputy, over the 1997 post-modern coup process that...
Turkish Constitutional Court rejects HDP co-chair Demirtaş’s individual application
Turkey’s Constitutional Court rejected on Thursday an individual application by imprisoned pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş to the court, in which...
Turkish gov’t detains 96 people, mostly military officers, over alleged links to Gülen movement
Turkish government has detained at least 96 people, mostly military officers, across Turkey on Thursday over their alleged links to the Gülen movement as part...
Just three sentences left behind from Turkish prisoner’s letter censored with scissors
A letter sent by a Turkish prisoner to a journalist was censored by an unprecedented method and just three sentences of the letter left...
Turkey seeks up to 15 years for journalists, CHP deputy in MİT trucks case
İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Wednesday demanded up to 15 years imprisonment for former Cumhuriyet daily editor-in-chief Can Dündar, Cumhuriyet Ankara representative Erdem...
Severely sick Turkish journalist Balta not allowed to meet his family in prison
The veteran Turkish journalist Halil İbrahim Balta, who was arrested and put behind the bars after a controversial coup attempt on July 15, 2016,...
Visually impaired ex-civil servant’s letter shows he can barely survive in Turkish jail
A letter by a visually impaired ex-civil servant who wrote to columnist Emin Çölaşan of Turkish daily Sözcü has told the harrowing story that...
Journalist Seda Taşkın detained by Turkish police in Muş province
Seda Taşkın, a reporter for pro-Kurdish Mezopotamya news agency, was detained by Turkish police in Muş province on Wednesday.
According to a report by pro-Kurdish...
HDP’s Paylan warns against assassination plans targeting critical Turkish citizens in Europe
Garo Paylan, pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputy and a member of Parliamentary Commission for Planning and Budget, has stated on Wednesday that he...
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