Turkish gov’t trustee shuts down Kurdish-language audio library for disabled children

A Kurdish-language audio library, opened specifically for disabled children in 2014, has been shut down after the government seized the administration of the Diyarbakır...

Turkish police bar İstanbul rally to show solidarity with jailed journalists, lawyers

Turkish police have intervened into a protest organised by journalists and lawyers in İstanbul to show solidarity with the jailed journalists and lawyers in...

Turkish government jails another journalist

Turkish government has jailed another journalist on Saturday. Pro-Kurdish Fırat news agency reported on Saturday that a Turkish court jailed journalist Kemal Demir, a cameraman...

Turkish gov’t investigates all members of CHP party assembly over Erdoğan’s complaint

Turkish government has launched a legal investigation about 60 members of Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) over autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan,...

People flock to social media for Zarrab’s trial as Turkish media opts auto censorship

Allegations of wrongdoing by Turkey’s political and financial leaders have transfixed the country this week, but with some newspapers focusing instead on courtroom conspiracies...

Turkish gov’t detains nationalist news portal’s editor over alleged links to Gülen movement

Journalist İsmail Türk, the editor-in-chief of a nationalist online news portal, Haber Erk and a former columnist for the Yeniçağ daily newspaper has been...

Reza Zarrab says Turkish President Erdoğan gives order to start Iran trade under US...

Reza Zarrab, the US prosecution's 'star witness', who is a Turkish-Iranian gold trader whose prosecution in Manhattan has drawn sharp criticism from Turkey’s autocratic...

COMMENTARY — Exposing generals in Erdoğan’s troll army

By Abdullah Bozkurt For several years now senior Turkish government officials clustered around Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan have been running an army of...

22-year jail term sought for Turkish director over movie showing Erdogan’s execution

Turkish prosecutors are seeking 22,5-year jail sentences for Turkish producer Ali Avcı over a movie trailer that shows the moments before the apparent execution of...

ECtHR rejects CHP’s application against April 16 Presidential referendum in Turkey

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has declared on Thursday that Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party's (CHP) complaint about April 2017 referendum...

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