Former AKP deputy Uzun arrested over alleged Gülen links
Former Justice and Development Party (AKP) Mersin deputy Ahmet Tevfik Uzun, who was detained on Monday morning as part of an operation targeting the...
ECtHR Grand Chamber to examine case concerning Gülen movement trial in Turkey
The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) will examine the case of former teacher Yüksel Yalçınkaya, who was first dismissed...
Dismissed Kurdish mayors, politicians in Turkey conditionally released
Ten local politicians and mayors from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) removed from office on May 15 by Turkey’s Interior Ministry, have been...
BİA report: 237 aggravated life sentences sought for 520 journalists in Turkey
A recently released quarterly report, the BİA Media Monitoring Report, has revealed that 122 journalists were in Turkish jails as of Jan.1, 2018, while...
Journalist says Erdoğan tracking phone calls of ‘March for Justice’ participants
Yeniçağ daily's Ankara representative Ahmet Takan has claimed that Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has asked for an investigation into “March for Justice“...
RSF urges Macron to keep his promise to request Erdoğan to release jailed journalists...
As French President Emmanuel Macron prepares to receive a visit from his Turkish autocratic counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) stresses the...
Miss Turkey decrowned just hours after due to tweet on failed coup attempt
The winner of Miss Turkey 2017 was decrowned on Friday just hours after winning the beauty pageant, after a tweet she posted about the...
US mission to OSCE calls on Turkish gov’t to end state of emergency
The US mission to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) has called on Turkish government to bring an end to an...
Turkish Parliament strips HDP deputies Yıldırım and Ayhan of parliamentary status
The Turkish Parliament on Tuesday stripped pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputies Ahmet Yıldırım and İbrahim Ayhan of their parliamentary status over court rulings against...
Parents of Turkish hunger strikers say police threaten them to halt protest
The parents of hunger strikers Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça made a statement to the press regarding police threats to halt the protests.
The family...
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