Turkish lawyer Kavili says subjected to ill treatment during incarceration over court defense
Ömer Kavili, a Turkish lawyer who was briefly arrested last week for a defense he gave during a hearing in an İstanbul court, said he...
US hopeful Turkey will free pastor Brunson at Friday hearing
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday he was hopeful that Turkey would soon release an American pastor and end a two-year...
Turkish gov’t issues detention warrants for 15 journalists over alleged Gülen links
Eight media workers were detained on Wednesday during operations in seven provinces following the issuance of detention warrants by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's...
Turkish gov’t puts Khashoggi’s fiancée Hatice Cengiz under protection
Turkish authorities have put the fiancée of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi under 24-hour police protection, Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency (AA) said on...
Turkish police detain pro-Kurdish HDP politicians including former deputy in Ankara
Turkish police detained six executives of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), including the HDP's former Şanlıurfa deputy İbrahim Binici, in Ankara on Saturday...
HRW: Turkey’s Erdoğan opens 3rd airport in İstanbul amid labour rights violations
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday opened İstanbul's third airport, which he says will become one of the largest in the world, while...
Turkish gov’t issues detention warrants for 149 people over alleged links to Gülen movement
The Turkish government on Friday issued detention warrants for 149 people, mostly military officers, as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt targeting alleged...
Jailed deputy of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish HDP goes on hunger strike
Leyla Güven, a jailed deputy of Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), announced on Wednesday that she had started a hunger strike, the Diken...
Gülen movement confirms botched plot against jailed followers in Turkey on election night
The Alliance for Shared Values (AfSV), the official representative of the Gülen movement in the United States, in an online statement on Sunday, confirmed...
Erdoğan says ‘infamous Hungarian Jew’ Soros is behind businessman Kavala
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday said George Soros, a Hungarian-American billionaire investor and philanthropist, was behind jailed Turkish activist and businessman Osman...
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