Use of Skype, Tango, TikTok, WhatsApp can be considered terrorist activity in Turkey
The use of popular social networking and communication platforms such as Facebook, Skype, Tango, WhatsApp, Coco, Kakao, Falco, Coverme and TikTok may very well...
Turkish daily Evrensel chief editor called to testify over Zarakolu column
Fatih Polat, editor-in-chief of the Evrensel newspaper, has said he was summoned to testify with respect to a column written by journalist Ragıp Zarakolu...
UPDATED: Turkish parliament strips 3 opposition lawmakers of MP status
Turkey’s legislature stripped three opposition deputies of their parliamentary status in a decision on June 4, 2020 after their convictions were finalized at an...
Pro-Kurdish party starts ‘March to Protest the Coup against Democracy’
Members of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) started making their way to the capital, Ankara, yesterday from the southeastern province of Hakkari and...
Policeman accused of torture gets fined $450, with payment deferred for 5 years
The Erzurum Court of Appeals on Tuesday ruled to impose a fine of TL 3,000 (approximately $450, less than the fine for breaking curfew)...
Turkish invasion of northern Syria lacked international legitimacy, Germany says: report
Parliamentary State Secretary of the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development Maria Flachsbarth said on Monday that Turkey's offensive into northeast Syria last...
Single man with no child dismissed from public service for sending ‘his kids’ to...
Muhammed Zekeriya Özdil, a single man with no child, says according to the Inquiry Commission on the State of Emergency Measures (OHAL Commission) he...
UPDATE: Controversial Turkish social media law goes into effect
A law on Internet crimes – the so-called social media law – approved by the Turkish parliament on Wednesday, went into effect after it...
Turkey’s witch hunt of critics was expanded to India
Turkey’s relentless campaign to hunt down critics of the Islamist government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan abroad reached as far as India, judicial documents...
An alleged murderer of Kurdish intellectual Anter released by Turkish court
Ankara 6th High Criminal Court has decided to release Hamit Yıldırım, who is one of the alleged murderers of Kurdish journalist/writer Musa Anter, citing that...
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