Visually impaired Turkish journalist’s letter shows he can barely survive in prison

A letter sent by visually impaired Turkish journalist Cüneyt Arat, who was sent to prison last July due to his alleged links to the...

Turkish court sentences pro-Kurdish deputy Pir for 11-month prison over alleged insult

A Diyarbakır court has sentenced the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Diuyarbakır deputy Ziya Sir to 11 months and 20 days in prison for criticizing the...

Turkey Purge: 3,158 detained, 1,127 jailed in past 30 days over coup charges

A huge cleansing of Turkey’s state and other institutions is continuing as people from all walks of life find themselves being hunted down, taken...

Report: Turkish government keeps more than 70,000 students in prisons

Turkish Justice Ministry has announced that there are currently 70,000 students in prisons across the country. However, according to a report by Figen Atalay...

Turkish gov’t jails prominent social activist Osman Kavala after 2 weeks of detention

Osman Kavala, one of Turkey’s most prominent businessmen, social activist and the chairman of İstanbul-based Anadolu Kültür Association, was put in pretrial detention after spending two...

Turkish gov’t issues detention warrants for 112, detains 45 people over JWF links

Turkish government, under the rule of autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has issued detention warrants for 112 people over the links to the Journalists...

INTERPOL: The abuse of red notices bad news for critical journalists

Red notices have become a tool of political abuse by oppressive regimes. Since August, at least six journalists have been targeted across Europe by...

Turkish gov’t detains dozens, mostly military officers, over alleged links to Gülen movement

Turkish government has detained dozens of people on Tuesday as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt campaign targeting the alleged members of the...

Turkish court decides continuation of journalists’ imprisonments in Cumhuriyet daily case

An İstanbul court ordered on Tuesday for the continuation of imprisonments of Cumhuriyet daily's jailed journalists Murat Sabuncu, Ahmet Şık, the newspaper's CEO Akın Atalay,...

European intellectuals ask Turkey’s Erdoğan to release social activist Kavala

A group of 35 academics, writers and researchers have come together under the guidance of the European Network on Political Group Analysis Jean-François Bayart,...

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