Academic sentenced for insulting Turkish president also dismissed from university
Çetin Koçyiğit, a Turkish academic from Kafkas University, has been given a prison sentence of two years, five months for “insulting” Turkish President Recep...
Kurdish leader imprisoned since 2016 declines to attend father’s funeral in protest
Kurdish leader Selahattin Demirtaş, a two-time presidential candidate and former co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) who has been imprisoned since 2016,...
62-year-old disabled inmate complains of neglect and poor prison conditions
A 62-year-old disabled inmate said in a letter that his life in prison had become unbearable due to neglect and dismal conditions, the Mezopotamya...
Jailed journalist Baransu: I am being tried for publishing a secret document I have...
Jailed journalist Mehmet Baransu has stated that an alleged military coup plot, named Sledgehammer, which was exposed by him while at the now-closed Taraf...
15 more detained for allegedly insulting Turkey’s autocratic President Erdoğan
Fourteen people in İzmir and the chief editor of the Redaktif website, Hakan Gülseven, in Balıkesir were detained on Friday morning on grounds of...
Turkish top court rules police violated life to right of young Kurdish woman
The Turkish Constitutional Court has ruled that the police violated the right to life of 28-year-old Aynur Kudin, a Kurdish woman who died from...
Cumhuriyet journalists return to jail to serve their time
Several journalists and media staff who received prison sentences in a trial involving the Cumhuriyet newspaper arrived at the Kocaeli Courthouse on Thursday to...
Human Rights Watch says Turkey’s authoritarian order consolidated in 2023
The May 2023 re-election of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the victory of his Justice and Development Party (AKP) in parliamentary elections consolidated an authoritarian...
Court releases assailant who staged attack at HDP office in İstanbul
An İstanbul court on Monday ruled to release from detention a man who staged an attack at a pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) building...
Scientist Gölge unable to return NASA due to imposition of travel ban
Serkan Gölge, a Turkish-American scientist imprisoned in Turkey for nearly three years due to his alleged links to the Gülen movement, was released from...
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