Turkish judge tells prominent journalist to stop Erdoğan criticism at coup trial
A judge hearing the trial of seven journalists including Nazlı Ilıcak and the Altan brothers, who are being tried on coup charges, has intervened...
Jailed Turkish journalist Altan: No true prosecutor, judge, lawyer can be a tool of...
Renowned Turkish novelist and journalist Ahmet Altan, who has been behind the bars over coup charges for more than 15 months, said on Monday that...
Turkish gov’t detains pro-Kurdish HDP’s former co-chair Kemalbay in Ankara
Serpil Kemalbay, who has handed over her post as co-chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and was elected as a member of...
At least 3 victims of Erdoğan’s persecution targeting Gülen movement drowned as trying to...
At least three victims of the massive post-coup persecution of Turkish government, led by autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, targeting the alleged members of...
Archbishop Bekçiyan decides to leave Turkey over patriarch election row
Archbishop Karekin Bekçiyan, the primate of the Armenian diocese of Germany who was elected last March as “degabah,” or trustee to officially launch and...
Widow of slain Turkish general says July 15 shrouded in mystery, facts should come...
Nazire Terzi, the widow of Brig. Gen. Semih Terzi, who was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Monday, has said the night of...
Turkish gov’t detains 6 Environment Ministry staff over alleged links to Gülen movement
Turkish government has detained at least 6 former Ministry of Environment and Urban Planning employees in Ankara on Tuesday over their alleged links to...
Turkey’s Erdoğan threatens US forces in Syria with ‘Ottoman slap’
"The US’s decision to give more financial support to Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) will affect Turkey’s decisions,” said Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...
Turkish court sentences main opposition CHP’s deputy Berberoğlu for 5 years in prison
Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party's (CHP) jailed deputy Enis Berberoğlu was sentenced on Tuesday to 5 years and 10 months in prison. The...
COMMENTARY — The case of Turkish journalist İbrahim Karayeğen under torture and abuse
By Abdullah Bozkurt
Among all the 250 journalists who are currently languishing behind bars in Turkey under abusive conditions in which torture and ill-treatment are...
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