Police briefly detain Turkish actor after tweet critical of former Erdoğan aide
Turkish police detained actor Barış Atay on Wednesday morning after Hürriyet daily columnist Ahmet Hakan wrote an article and targeted him, saying, "Teach him a...
ECtHR faults Turkey for canceling 3 academics’ passports after 2016 coup
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Turkey violated Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights as well as...
Turkish court sentences 13 lawyers to 1 to 10 years in jail
A Turkish court in Samsun province gave sentences to 13 lawyers in varying lengths of prison terms over their alleged links to the Gülen...
Hunger striking educator Özakça’s mother detained by Turkish police in Ankara
The mother of Semih Özakça, a primary school teacher who went on a hunger strike after he was fired by government decree under the...
Top Greek court grants asylum to 2 Turkish military officers accused of coup links
Two Turkish military officers who fled to Greece following a controversial coup attempt on July 15, 2016 were granted political refugee status on Wednesday after...
Activists renew calls for release of incarcerated mothers with sick children
Following the recent death of 6-year-old Yusuf Kerim Sayın, who was separated from his imprisoned mother during his struggle with bone cancer, human rights...
Erdoğainst Turks get Le Point ad removed from billboard in France
A group of Turks in Avignon, France, succeeded in the removal of a publicity poster for the French magazine Le Point, which in its...
Turkey blacklists 411 critics living abroad over Gülen links
The Turkish government has blacklisted 411 people living in countries such as Germany, the Netherlands, the US and Canada for alleged links to the...
FDD report: Turkey’s jailing of Western nationals is ‘hostage diplomacy’
A Washington think tank has warned that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is holding a number of Western nationals in jail to use them...
Turkish FM’s comments an admission of political nature of Kavala case: lawyers
Lawyers for Osman Kavala, a prominent Turkish philanthropist and businessman who has been in jail since 2017, said that recent statements by Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan...
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