Turkey’s Zarrab: I got $150 mln from Iran sanctions plot, paid $45K bribe to...
Reza Zarrab, the government’s star witness in a trial involving a billion-dollar conspiracy to smuggle gold for oil in violation of United States sanctions...
Int’l organizations express deep concern over deterioration of free speech in Turkey
PEN International, ARTICLE 19 and 66 other international organizations have issued a statement in which they expressed deep concerns over the continuous deterioration of...
Three people imprisoned by Turkey’s courts over preventing imams from reciting Sala on night...
Three people, including a neighborhood administrator (mukhtar), were imprisoned by Turkish courts with charge of their alleged intervention into Sala prayers recited by a local...
Turkey’s top court finds prisoner uniforms unconstitutional
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has abolished a regulation requiring a designated group of inmates to wear a uniform on the grounds that it failed to...
Turkish President Erdoğan’s ultra-nationalist ally targets journalists who ‘defamed’ his party
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli, an ultra-nationalist ally of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, ran an advertisement in a number of newspapers...
Lawyer of Turkey’s main opposition leader and dozens more detained over alleged links to...
Celal Çelik, a judge-turned lawyer representing the main opposition Republican Peoples’ Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, was detained at his home in Ankara province...
16 detained for ByLock use, Bank Asya transactions
Turkish police on Friday detained 16 people as part of an operation targeting alleged members of the Gülen movement due to their use of...
Turkish gov’t jails 10 social media users on terror charges
A total of 10 Kurdish social media users have been sent to prison on charges of “disseminating terrorist propaganda” and “membership in an armed...
2 teenagers in Turkey face prison sentences for insulting Atatürk, denigrating religious values
Turkish prosecutors have demanded prison terms for a 17-year-old who was arrested last week over a video of him performing a lewd act with...
Cumhuriyet editor Güven released after 30 days’ imprisonment in Turkey
Cumhuriyet daily website editor Oğuz Güven, who was arrested on May 15 for allegedly disseminating the propaganda of a terrorist organization, was released after...
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