Court adjourns trial of Turkish journalists facing terror charges
An İstanbul court on Friday adjourned the trial of 28 journalists charged with membership in a terrorist organization to March 7-8 as the journalists...
Top court: Turkey jails 2,431 judges, prosecutors, dismisses 4,424 since coup
The Turkish government has arrested a total of 2,431 judges and prosecutors and dismissed 4,424 others since a controversial military coup attempt on July...
Top court finds rights violation in terror conviction of teacher in Gülen-linked case
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the conviction of a teacher on terrorism charges over his alleged links to the Gülen movement violated his...
German court dismisses Erdoğan’s appeal to ban satirical poem
A German court on Tuesday rejected Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s appeal to ban outright a satirical poem recited by a comedian on German...
Pro-Kurdish party declines to present oral defense to top court in act of protest
Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), the subject of a closure case, has decided not to present an oral defense at the Constitutional Court...
Turkish gov’t detains 12 people as they try to flee from persecution to Greece
Turkish security forces detained 12 people, including a former district governor, five children and three women, on Sunday in the Kuşadası district of Aydın...
One more dismissed teacher begins hunger strike in Turkey for reinstatement to job
Nazife Onay, one of the thousands of teachers who were expelled from their posts by government decrees in the aftermath of a failed coup...
Islamist Turkish academic threatens people with civil war if Erdoğan loses elections
Erdoğanist Turkish academic Professor Ahmet Maranki has threatened the nation with civil war if the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its presidential...
Turkey released Kazakh ISIL suspect wanted by INTERPOL for lack of evidence
Turkish authorities have released pending trial a Kazakh national wanted by INTERPOL on suspicion of membership in the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant...
Turkish conscript in 5th day of military service given 14 life sentences on coup...
The İstanbul 26th High Criminal Court handed down aggravated life sentences to 41 defendants on Friday, among them Ahmet Özdemir, who was fulfilling his...
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