Turkey Purge: 1601 people detained, 895 people jailed over alleged Gülen links across Turkey...
Turkish government has continued its massive post-coup witch hunt targeting the alleged members of the Gülen movement and the citizens from Turkey’s Kurdish minority...
Activist starts serving prison sentence for showing solidarity with Kurdish daily
Well-known activist, writer and journalist Celaletttin Can has been sent to prison to serve a 15-month sentence on conviction of disseminating terrorist propaganda for...
COMMENTARY — Turkey tries to undermine the Council of Europe
By Abdullah Bozkurt
The regime of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, which has locked up almost 600 lawyers, was apparently irritated when the Parliamentary Assembly...
Venice Commission watchdog says Turkey ‘on the road to autocracy’
A body of constitutional law experts has warned of a “one-person regime” in Turkey in the wake of proposed constitutional amendments which will establish...
Report: Turkish soldiers torture Kurdish shepherds in Şemdinli
Kurdish shepherds Nasır Taş and Ramazan Aktaş from a village in the Şemdinli district of Hakkari province were reportedly tortured by Turkish soldiers as...
Turkish journalist attacked by mob after criticizing far-right party founder
Turkish journalist Levent Gültekin, a columnist for the Diken news website and an outspoken critic of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), was...
Turkey’s media watchdog asks Albanian counterpart to restrict Gülen documentary
The Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) head İlhan Yerlikaya has sent a letter to his Albanian counterpart to restrict a documentary titled “Love...
Turkish journalist Böken transferred to prison 250 kilometers away from family
Ali Ahmet Böken (46), a veteran Turkish journalist and prominent broadcaster who was sentenced in April 2018 to nine years, nine months in prison...
Turkey’s agriculture minister smacks journalist over a question
Turkish Agriculture Minister Ahmet Eşref Fakıbaba slapped a journalist who asked a question about his security detail in Şanlıurfa province, the online news outlet...
German Ambassador Erdmann visits journalist, rights defender jailed in Turkey
German Ambassador to Turkey Martin Erdmann visited jailed journalist Deniz Yücel and activist Peter Steudtner in infamous Silivri Prison in İstanbul on Tuesday, Deutsche...
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