Turkish court rules to keep Zaman columnist Ali Ünal in jail despite serious health...
A high criminal court in the western Turkish province of Uşak has refused to release Ali Ünal, a theologian and former columnist for the...
Turkish journalists face jail for describing Brunson case as ‘hostage diplomacy’
Turkish prosecutors have launched legal proceedings against two journalists for calling a terrorism case involving American pastor Andrew Brunson “failing hostage diplomacy,” as intense...
Turkish court gives prison sentences to pro-Kurdish HDP’s Demirtaş and Önder
The leading figures of Turkey's pro-Kurdish opposition Peoples Democratic Party (HDP), former co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş, and former HDP deputy Sırrı Süreyya Önder were sentenced...
Head of top court in Turkey confirms they don’t have authority to review statutory...
Turkey's Constitutional Court (AYM) President Zühtü Arslan stated that as the top court of the country they don’t have the authority to review the...
Survey shows Turkish gov’t seized at least $11 billion of company assets over Gülen...
The Turkish government has transferred some TL 49,4 billion ($11 billion) in assets of 1,124 companies seized for alleged affiliation with the Gülen movement...
Canada accelerates procedure for asylum seeking Turkish citizens
Canada has announced that from January 1, 2018 onwards, it will exempt the asylum applications of Turkish citizens from the court process. This means the procedure will...
Swedish social democrats launch campaign in solidarity with arrested HDP politicians
Coalition partner of Swedish government, the Swedish Social Democratic Party (SAP) and Olof Palme Center have launched a donation campaign to provide financial support...
Novelist Erdoğan says Turkey turned into a ‘concentration camp’
Aslı Erdoğan, an internationally acclaimed Turkish author and a famous human right activist, has said she sees parallels between today’s Turkey and Germany under...
UN experts call for dropping of terror charges against leading human rights defenders
A group of United Nations experts including Annalisa Ciampi, Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association; Michel Forst, Special...
2 Turkish journalists detained in espionage probe
Ismail Dükel, the Ankara representative of the TELE 1 TV channel, and Müyesser Yıldız, the Ankara news director of the ultranationalist OdaTV news website,...
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