Jailed Turkish novelist-journalist Ahmet Altan fined TL 7,000 for “insulting Erdoğan”
Renowned Turkish novelist and journalist Ahmet Altan, who has been behind the bars over coup charges for more than a year, was fined TL...
Turkey’s regional court overturns CHP deputy Berberoğlu verdict, orders retrial
A regional court of justice on Monday overturned an İstanbul 14th High Criminal Court decision made on June 14 handing down a prison sentence...
Turkish court arrests 2 Kurdish news outlet reporters on terrorism charges
A Turkish court in İzmir province on Saturday arrested two journalists from the Kurdish Mezopotamya news agency on terrorism charges, according to the Turkish...
Malaysia gov’t does Erdoğan’s bidding in persecuting Gülen movement members
The crackdown by Malaysia government on critics and opponents of Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Kuala Lumpur, appeared to have taken place...
Turkey’s MİT to designate AKP management, says pro-gov’t columnist
The management of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is to be determined by The National Intelligence Organization (MİT), claimed Dilek Güngör, a...
Former Supreme Court of Appeals judge tortured and mistreated in prison
Nalan Dilara Uğur, daughter of former Supreme Court of Appeals judge Hüsamettin Uğur, has claimed in a series of tweets that her father was...
Turkey’s Erdoğan signals legislation to transfer opposition CHP’s shares in İş Bank to Treasury
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said he thinks the opposition Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) shares in İşbank can be transferred to the Treasury...
Turkish court sentences HDP deputy Toğrul to two-and-a-half years for alleged terrorist propaganda
A Turkish court on Tuesday sentenced pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Mahmut Toğrul to two years, six months’ imprisonment for disseminating terrorist propaganda,...
ECtHR fines Turkish government over ‘discrimination of right to education’
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ordered Turkey on Tuesday to pay 10,000 euros in respect of non-pecuniary damage to a paraplegic university...
Turkish gov’t detains dozens, convicts 59 academicians over alleged links to Gülen movement
Turkish government has continued to detain dozens of people and convicted 84 people, including 59 academics, across Turkey on Friday as part of its...
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