Amnesty secretary-general poses outside infamous Turkish prison where AI’s Eser is jailed
Amnesty International (AI) Secretary-General Salil Shetty posed for a picture on Tuesday outside İstanbul’s infamous Silivri Prison where AI Turkey Director İdil Eser is...
Journalist İzgen Gökçe detained by Turkish police in Bartın province
Journalist İzgen Gökçe, an editor of İleri Haber, was detained by police in Turkey's Bartın province on Tuesday. During the raid the apartment of...
IPI says 171 journalists behind bars in Turkey
According to the International Press Institute (IPI) currently a total of 171 journalists are imprisoned in Turkey due to their journalistic activities. The international...
COMMENTARY — Erdoğan’s Turkey now aiding and abetting North Korea
By Abdullah Bozkurt
North Korea has now been added to the short list of rogue states the Islamist government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan...
Erdoğan calls Turkey’s jailed journalists ‘thieves, child abusers, terrorists’
At a time when Turkey ranks the first among a list of countries with the highest number of jailed journalists, Turkey’s autocratic President Recep...
Turkish court sentences journalist Ali Ünal to 19,5 years in prison over alleged Gülen...
A high criminal court in the western Turkish province of Uşak acquitted Ali Ünal, a theologian and former columnist for the now-closed Zaman daily,...
US Human Rights Report: Turkish gov’t restricts int’l travel for tens of thousands of...
The Turkish government has restricted foreign travel for tens of thousands of citizens accused of links to the Gülen movement or involvement in a...
An assailant defaces Alevi cemevi in Turkey with insults, cursing
An unidentified assailant wrote insulting and curse-filled graffiti on the walls of a cemevi, an Alevi house of worship, in the northwestern province of...
Turkey’s Kılıçdaroğlu asks who ordered intelligence, army heads not to testify to coup commission
Addressing Parliament during a special session to commemorate the first anniversary of a controversial coup attempt on July 15, 2016, Turkey's main opposition Republican...
Sick and bedridden wife of jailed 86-year-old Turkish philanthropist Afşar dies
Feride Afşar, the sick and bedridden wife of 86-year-old Turkish philanthropist Celal Afşar, who has been jailed since July 2018 over his alleged links...
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