Turkish court approves jail sentences for 4 pro-Kurdish HDP parliamentary candidates
A Gaziantep regional court has approved jail sentences for four Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) members who are also standing as parliamentary candidates in the...
Turkish court censors online content on judicial bribery allegations
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İYİ Party member detained by Turkish police for tweet claiming Halkbank to be fined...
An İstanbul court has ruled for the pretrial detention of Kerim Yılmaz, a High Advisory Board member of the İYİ Party, over a tweet...
Turkey’s far-right party leader calls for closure of top court over judicial crisis
Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) leader Devlet Bahçeli, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s far-right ally, has called for either closure or restructuring of the country’s...
394 workers killed in workplace accidents in Turkey in Q1
Three hundred ninety-four workers died in workplace accidents across Turkey in the first three months of 2018, according to a monthly study released by...
Most Europeans against Turkey joining EU, survey shows
A polling of six EU member states for the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) found strong opposition to the possibility of Turkey joining...
COMMENTARY — Al-Qaeda running on Erdoğan’s election ticket in Turkey
By Abdullah Bozkurt
It was hardly surprising to see that a former al-Qaeda suspect was nominated as a front-runner candidate for a parliamentary seat in...
Turkish appeals court again defies top court ruling, exacerbating crisis in judiciary
The Turkish judiciary is facing a crisis as the Supreme Court of Appeals has defied a Constitutional Court (AYM) ruling for the second time...
ARTICLE 19, IPI and RSF: Zaman columnists, journalists must be acquitted in political trial
International organisations for press freedom ARTICLE 19, the International Press Institute (IPI) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) have repeated their call for all defendants...
Chief justice slams appeals judges for defying top court rulings on jailed lawmaker
Zühtü Arslan, the chief justice of Turkey’s Constitutional Court, criticized the Supreme Court of Appeals on Friday for failing to comply with the rulings...
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