Turkish court gives pro-Kurdish HDP’s Taşdemir suspended sentence for ‘terror propaganda’
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Ağrı deputy Dirayet Taşdemir has been given a suspended 20-month sentence on terror charges, while another HDP Ağrı deputy,...
Erdoğan aide says president’s advisors were making coup jokes before July 15
Col. Ali Yazıcı, the top military aide for Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan who was arrested in the aftermath of a failed coup...
Widespread and systematic election frauds mark on Turkey’s referendum over executive presidency
As polls were closed and vote counting has been continuing in Turkey's historic referendum over shifting political system to an executive presidency with extreme...
The Kafkaesque case of a visual Turkish journalist: Don’t forget Fevzi!
On the occasion of May 3, World Press Freedom Day, Can Bahadır Yüce, a poet, academic and journalist, has written an article for English...
Turkish police detain İYİ Party’s head of communications over links to Gülen movement
Kerim Çoraklık, head of the communications team of Turkey's opposition İYİ Party has been detained on charges of making the propaganda of the faith...
Turkish President Erdoğan rejects TV debate with opposition candidate
Turkey's Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday accepted an offer for a visit by main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) presidential candidate Muharrem...
Turkish gov’t issues detention warrants for 129 police officers, detains at least 120 people...
Turkish government has issued detention warrants on Thursday for 129 police officers who were dismissed by government decrees under the rule of emergency declared...
The number of jailed journalists in Turkey reaches to 200
Stockholm Center for Freedom, an advocacy group that monitors rights violations in Turkey, has updated its mammoth list of jailed journalists in Turkey which...
8 injured in knife attack at Turkish opposition İYİ Party’s campaign stall in İstanbul
A mob reportedly attacked the booth of Turkey's opposition İYİ Party in İstanbul’s Avcılar district on Sunday, injuring eight, including the party’s Avcılar representative,...
MHP youth wing chairman says they will take up arms if necessary
Olcay Kılavuz, president of Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) youth wing Grey Wolves (Ülkü Ocakları), said on Sunday that they don’t want tensions in Turkey,...
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