Turkish court rules to keep pro-Kurdish HDP’s former co-chair Demirtaş in prison
A Turkish high criminal court has decided to keep former pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chairperson Selahattin Demirtaş in prison during a trial in...
Turkish court orders opposition leader to pay $74,000 in damages to President Erdoğan
An İstanbul court on Wednesday ordered Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu to pay TL 359,000 ($74,000) in non-pecuniary damages...
Turkish court rules to keep American pastor Brunson behind bars
A Turkish court on Wednesday ruled to keep in custody American pastor Andrew Brunson, who was jailed in October 2016 in Turkey on espionage...
Turkish court rules to keep Zaman columnist Ali Ünal in jail
A high criminal court in the western Turkish province of Uşak has refused to release Ali Ünal, a theologian and former columnist for the...
Turkey’s TMSF controls 937 companies seized by Turkish gov’t over alleged Gülen links
Nine hundred thirty-seven companies with TL 19,4 billion (about 3,5 billion euros) in equity and assets of TL 50 billion (about 9 billion euros)...
Kurdish journalist/artist Zehra Doğan sends letter of gratitude to Banksy from Turkish prison
Imprisoned Kurdish-Turkish artist and journalist Zehra Doğan has expressed her gratitude for a tribute by a painter in New York as well as revealing...
Turkish-backed rebels torture, kill Kurdish man in Syria’s Afrin province: report
A Kurdish man succumbed to his injuries on Tuesday after he was attacked by Turkish-backed rebels at his home in the Afrin district of...
Turkish journalist Böken transferred to prison 250 kilometers away from family
Ali Ahmet Böken (46), a veteran Turkish journalist and prominent broadcaster who was sentenced in April 2018 to nine years, nine months in prison...
Report: Turkish gov’t detained 228,137 people under state of emergency
The Turkish government led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has detained 228,137 and dismissed 134,144 people from their jobs under the state of emergency that...
Turkey’s main opposition leader tweets caricature that caused arrest of 4 ODTÜ students
Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu on Tuesday posted a caricature on Twitter called “Tayyipler Âlemi” (World of Tayyips), which...
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