Pro-Kurdish HDP deputy Berdan Öztürk detained at İstanbul airport
Berdan Öztürk, a deputy from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), was detained at İstanbul’s Atatürk Airport in the early hours of Friday upon...
Greece says Turkish gov’t may be holding 2 soldiers for political gain
Greece said on Monday that Turkey appeared to be seeking some political leverage by continuing to hold two of its soldiers without trial for...
Turkey’s top court: Using messaging app ByLock can be considered evidence of membership...
Turkey’s Constitutional Court in a ruling published June 26 denied a petition in which the applicant had claimed that using the messaging app ByLock...
Bulgarian journalists sent letters to Turkish colleagues in jail ahead of Varna summit
The Association of European Journalists-Bulgaria (AEJ-Bulgaria) sent letters to journalists jailed in Turkey as a sign of solidarity with them.
A huge number of media...
Turkish prosecutor who approved torture chambers at unauthorized site identified: report
Torture chambers set up at an unofficial detention site in Turkey’s capital city of Ankara that were the subject of a Council of Europe...
Turkish gov’t detains 110 military officers and more over alleged links to Gülen movement
Dozens of people, mostly military officers, were detained across Turkey as part of Turkish government's massive post-coup witch hunt campaign targeting alleged members of...
Political tension increasing in Turkey ahead of critical elections
Political tension has increased across Turkey ahead of the June 24 parliamentary and presidential elections in which Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is seeking...
PEN Int’l and ARTICLE 19 draw attention to deterioration of freedom of expression, human...
International press freedom organizations PEN International and ARTICLE 19 have called the attention of the UN Human Rights Council to the relentless crackdown on...
Child whose mother was imprisoned over Gülen links succumbs to bone cancer
Yusuf Kerim Sayın, a child with bone cancer who made the headlines with a video of him crying and asking for his imprisoned mother...
CHP to file criminal complaint against YSK members
The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) on Wednesday said they would file a criminal complaint about members of the Supreme Election Board (YSK)...
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