European parlamenters show support for jailed journalists in Turkey
European Parliament members asked Turkish government under the autocratic rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to release jailed journalists in Turkey in a joint...
Turkish court sentences journalist Yasir Kaya to 6 years in prison over Gülen links
A Turkish court sentenced journalist Yasir Kaya, former news director of Fenerbahçe TV, to six years, three months in prison on Monday over his...
Lawyer under investigation, accompanied by infant, put in pretrial detention by Turkish gov’t
An İstanbul lawyer, identified only by the initials O.E.H., was put in pretrial detention along with her 3-month-old baby as part of an investigation into...
22,000 inmates sleep on jail floors in Turkey’s overcrowded prisons
At least 22,000 inmates are forced to sleep on jail floors as the number of prisoners reaches more than 224,000 for the first time...
Top judicial board removes 5 prosecutors from jobs due to alleged Gülen links
Turkey’s Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK) has removed five prosecutors from their jobs due to their alleged links to the Gülen movement,...
Turkish gov’t detains 6 military members over alleged links to Gülen movement
The Turkish government detained six military personnel on Wednesday in six provinces as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt targeting alleged members of...
CoE head Jagland calls for ending state of emergency in Turkey
In his opening speech for the year 2017, Secretary-General of the Council of Europe (CoE) Thorbjorn Jagland urged an end to a state of...
Turkish police besiege World Heritage Site Sur, forcibly evict hundreds of Kurds
Hundreds of Kurds who live in Diyarbakır’s Sur district face imminent eviction by the Turkish government as the site will reportedly undergo reconstruction to...
Turkish prosecutor seeks 15 years for journalist Güven over one tweet
An İstanbul prosecutor has demanded a 15-year sentence for Cumhuriyet daily website editor Oğuz Güven, who was jailed between May 15 and June 14...
Pro-Kurdish co-mayor detained after colleague announces resignation: report
The chief public prosecutor’s office of the eastern city of Kars has ordered the detention of 19 politicians from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party...
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