Turkey’s high court orders state to compensate academic who received death threats
The Turkish Constitutional Court has ordered the state to pay Professor Baskın Oran TL 27,000 ($4,500) in damages due to the lack of an...
Turkey’s pro-gov’t daily editor-in-chief: Will you find a better caliph than Erdoğan?
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Turkey's pro-government Star daily Editor-in-Chief Nuh Albayrak said during a TV show on Sunday that he has been raising the issue of reinstating the...
TURKEY PURGE IN 8 DAYS: 358 arrested, 785 detained over coup charges
A huge cleansing of Turkey’s state and other institutions is continuing as people from all walks of life find themselves hunted down and taken...
Former Zaman columnist sentenced to 50 months in jail for threatening Erdoğan
An İstanbul court on Tuesday handed down a prison sentence of four years, two months to former Zaman daily columnist Mümtaz’er Türköne on charges...
PACE welcomes return of Turkish opposition MP Berberoğlu to parliament
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Turkey, Thomas Hammarberg (Sweden, SOC) and John Howell (United Kingdom,...
63 Turkish military personnel given life sentences over alleged involvement in coup
A court in İstanbul on Friday handed down life sentences to 63 military personnel, including military cadets and officers who had previously been dismissed...
Teacher jailed on Gülen links suffering from vision loss, heart disease
Family members and human rights activists have campaigned on social media for the release of Mustafa Seçkin, a history teacher jailed on accusations of...
Denying earlier remarks, Erdoğan says never been deceived in political life
In remarks that contradicted two earlier statements, Turkey’s autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Wednesday that he has never been deceived by anybody...
Turkey should end detention of lawyers held for representing clients: ICJ
The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) on Monday expressed its deep concern at the issuance of detention warrants for 60 lawyers in Turkey on...
Turkey’s justice minister says Gülen followers take Christian names in order to infiltrate Western...
Turkey’s Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ said on Monday that followers of Gülen movement, change their Turkish names in order to infiltrate into the institutions...
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