Journalist Önal sentenced by a court for 6 years and 3 months of imprisonment
Former editor of Bianet's Kurdish section, Yunus Önal, has been sentenced to 6 years and 3 months in prison in a court case he...
Arrest warrant issued for released HDP deputy Konca
The Batman 3rd High Criminal Court has ruled for the arrest of pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Siirt deputy Besime Konca, who was released...
Greek appeals court approves asylum for 2nd Turkish officer
The Athens Court of Appeals has approved the asylum request of another military officer who fled to neighboring Greece in a military helicopter following...
Twenty-eight people released by Turkish courts as first group who jailed over ByLock allegedly...
The first group of people, who were arbitrarily imprisoned by Turkish government over alleged use of mobile phone messaging application ByLock, as part of...
Social media post condemning anti-Erdoğan Belgian-Turkish candidate sparks debate
As local Belgian elections approach, the post of a Facebook page titled “AK Parti Belçika” (Justice and Development Party Belgium) calling on Turks...
Judge breaks off coup hearing after complainants throw water bottles at defendants
The presiding judge at a hearing in Ankara on Thursday, part of a trial of key suspects in a controversial coup in 2016, broke...
America’s Public Radio International maps out Turkish gov’t persecution of Gülen movement
Public Radio International (PRI), a Minneapolis-based public radio organization providing programming to over 850 public radio stations in the United States, in a program...
Former AKP parliamentary candidate elected as member of Turkey’s top court
A former candidate for parliament from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been elected as a member of Turkey’s Constitutional Court in...
Lawyers: Associating the assassin of Russian envoy with Fethullah Gülen a big slander
The lawyers of US-based Turkish Muslim scholar Fethullah Gülen have stated on Tuesday that the claim of their client knows police officer Mevlüt Mert...
Turkish journalist receives threat after story on sale of Yazidi girl by ISIL in...
Turkish journalist Hale Gönültaş received a phone call on Monday during which she was told to “watch her step” after she wrote a story...
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