Journalists detained in Turkey as NATO summit looms
Two journalists were detained in Turkey on Sunday, their media outlets said, in the latest police operations ahead of a NATO summit in Ankara...
Artwork created by jailed journalist Yazıcı receives SND Awards of Excellence
Artwork created by journalist Fevzi Yazıcı in his prison cell in Turkey has won a pair of Awards of Excellence from the Society for...
Turkish prisons 20 pct over capacity as inmate numbers keep rising
Turkey’s closed prison population has surpassed capacity by nearly 20 percent, despite recent legal reforms and amnesty laws aimed at reducing overcrowding.
Recent data from...
5 suspicious deaths at Gebze women’s prison in 2nd half of 2016
At least 5 people have suspiciously died at the women’s prison in Kocaeli’s Gebze district over the second half the last year, Republican Peoples’...
Halk TV executives questioned as Turkey expands crackdown on opposition media
Turkish authorities have summoned two senior Halk TV executives for questioning, expanding an ongoing investigation into the pro-opposition news network after three of its...
Pro-Kurdish party calls for ‘peace law,’ end to trustees after PKK’s laying down of...
Tülay Hatimoğulları, co-chair of Turkey’s main pro-Kurdish party, has said concrete legal steps, including a “peace law,” the removal of government-appointed trustees and broader...
Cellmate says tortured teacher was hurt more by insults than beatings by Turkish police
An expert in forensic medicine who shared a cell with Gökhan Açıkkollu, a teacher who was tortured to death while under detention in the...
Mother says still looking for justice on 10th anniversary of Berkin Elvan’s death
The mother of Berkin Elvan, a teenager who was struck in the head with a gas canister fired by a police officer during the...
25 more face detention in expanding probe targeting İstanbul Municipality
Turkish prosecutors have launched another wave of operations targeting the opposition-run İstanbul Municipality, issuing detention warrants for 25 people as part of an ongoing...
Report: German intelligence says Manchester bomber flew from Turkey before attack
Salman Abedi, the 22-year-old suicide bomber who killed 22 in the Manchester terrorist attack, travelled to Britain from Turkey just four days before the...
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