Turkish journalist indicted over reporting on Erdoğan family, alleged irregularities
Turkish prosecutors have indicted journalist İsmail Arı for his online commentary and social media posts involving family members of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan as...
Turkish court jails pro-Kurdish Dihaber reporter on ‘terror’ charges
Gökhan Öner, a reporter for the now-closed pro-Kurdish news agency Dihaber, has been put by a Turkish court in pretrial detention on terror charges.
Öner...
Lawyer alleges brutal assault by Istanbul police
A Turkish lawyer in a statement on X has alleged severe police brutality at the Istanbul Police Department’s organized crime unit after attempting to...
Turkey frees jailed pop star after public outcry
An İstanbul court on Monday ordered the release pending trial of one of Turkey’s biggest pop stars, after her jailing over a religious joke...
Turkish columnist sentenced to prison for criticizing Defense Minister Akar
Prominent Turkish columnist Yılmaz Özdil was sentenced to five months’ imprisonment on Tuesday for criticizing then-Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar on a...
Turkish opposition lawmaker seeks probe into police officer’s suicide amid mobbing allegations
An opposition lawmaker has asked Turkey’s interior minister to investigate allegations that workplace harassment, or mobbing, drove a police officer in İstanbul to die...
Turkish gov’t has detained a third of pro-Kurdish HDP members over last 3 years
The Turkish government led by autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has detained about a third of all pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) members since...
Turkey’s justice ministry refuses to assert authority for Kavala’s retrial
The Turkish Justice Ministry has rejected a petition from the lawyers of jailed businessman and philanthropist Osman Kavala asking the ministry to assert its...
Former police officer, summarily dismissed after 2016 coup attempt, dies by suicide
A former police officer who was summarily fired by a government decree after a coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016 took his...
Journalist Mehmet Baransu sentenced to 17 years for publishing leaked gov’t documents
An İstanbul court on Monday sentenced jailed investigative journalist Mehmet Baransu, a former correspondent for the now-defunct Taraf newspaper, to 17 years, one month...
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