Turkey’s largest media group Doğan sold to Demirören
The largest media company in Turkey, the Doğan Media Group, which has been harshly criticized for acting as a mouthpiece of the Turkish government...
Turkish gov’t detains a number of people over alleged links to Gülen movement
The Turkish government on Wednesday issued detention warrants and detained a number of people as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt targeting alleged...
Turkish Interior Ministry: 24,545 Turks renounced their citizenship in 2016
The Turkish Interior Ministry’s General Directorate of Population and Citizenship Affairs has announced that a total of 24,545 Turks renounced their Turkish citizenship in...
Turkey’s Afrin operation increases attacks on Turkish communities in Germany
The Turkish military offensive in the Kurdish-populated Afrin province of northwestern Syria has increased attacks on Turkish communities in Germany, Deutsche Welle (DW) reported.
According...
CoE’s annual report shows record increase in Turkish prison population
Data released in an annual Council of Europe (CoE) report has revealed an explosion in the prison population of Turkey, with a record increase of...
Turkish agricultural engineer goes missing in Rize province
An agricultural engineer, Nuh Yiğit, has disappeared in the Black Sea province of Rize where he went earlier this week to look for a...
Turkish gov’t detains over 100 Kurdish activists ahead of Nevroz festival
Turkish authorities detained more than 100 suspected Kurdish activists on Tuesday on suspicion of planning illegal demonstrations or plotting attacks for the Nevroz festival,...
Turkish opposition deputy: New judges and prosecutors selected from among AKP partisans
Barış Yarkadaş, a deputy from Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), has stated that newly appointed judges and prosecutors were selected from among...
CPT publishes report on İmralı Prison saying conditions satisfactory but…
The Council of Europe's (CoE) Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) has published a report on its April 2016 visit to the high-security...
Turkish gov’t issues detention warrants for 85, detains dozens of military personnel over alleged...
The chief public prosecutor’s office in central Kayseri province issued detention warrants for 85 military personnel on Tuesday as part of the Turkish government's...
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