17 press organizations and rights groups urge Turkey to release journalist Furkan Karabay
Seventeen international press organizations and rights groups have called for Turkey to immediately release journalist Furkan Karabay, who faces a prison sentence of six...
Main opposition closes İstanbul office after trustee appointment sparks clashes
Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) said Monday it will close its İstanbul provincial headquarters after police helped a court-appointed trustee enter the...
Turkish media watchdog threatens sanctions on opposition broadcasters after police block CHP protest in...
Turkey’s media regulator issued a stern warning to pro-opposition broadcasters, threatening severe penalties, including license revocations, after police clashed with demonstrators outside main opposition...
Elderly Alzheimer’s patient jailed over Gülen links dies in Turkish prison after repeated pleas...
İbrahim Güngör, a 73-year-old Alzheimer’s patient imprisoned over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, died in a Turkish prison on the night of...
Opposition mayor re-arrested shortly after court-ordered release
Beykoz Mayor Alaattin Köseler from Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) was ordered back into custody on September 6, just over a day...
Int’l organizations warn case against İstanbul lawyers’ bar is ‘direct assault’ on legal profession
Twelve international legal and human rights organizations have submitted a joint legal opinion known as an amicus brief to an İstanbul court, warning that...
Police fire tear gas at protesters outside main opposition’s İstanbul office amid leadership battle
Turkish police fired tear gas and detained several people on Monday as they moved to disperse opposition supporters gathered outside the İstanbul headquarters of...
Social media restrictions persist in Turkey after police blockade of CHP İstanbul office
Access to social media and messaging platforms in Turkey remained severely restricted on Monday, more than 12 hours after police blockaded the İstanbul headquarters...
Turkey blocks exiled journalist Dündar’s YouTube channel over protest call
An İstanbul court has ordered a block on the YouTube channel of journalist living in exile Can Dündar, citing “national security and public order”...
Turkey blocks access to pro-Kurdish newspaper’s X account
Turkish authorities on Friday blocked access to the X account of the pro-Kurdish Yeni Yaşam daily, the newspaper reported.
This was the third ban on...
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