Female journalists say Turkish police beat them, threatened rape during raid
A group of journalists said Turkish police beat them and threatened them with rape during a raid on the office of a pro-Kurdish newspaper...
Turkey’s Erdoğan sues opposition leader for TL 250,000 in non-pecuniary damages
Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Thursday filed a lawsuit against main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu for TL 250,000...
US/OFAC sanctions Turkish company and its owner for providing support to ISIL
The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated a Turkish company and its owner as "Specially Designated Global Terrorists"...
Turkish gov’t detains academics, doctors for watching Gülen speech
Turkish police on Friday detained 7 people, including two academics and three doctors, for watching a video of a speech by Turkish Islamic scholar...
Report: Rights violations increased in Turkey under rule of emergency
A report drafted by the Diyarbakır Bar Association has revealed that there has been a significant increase in the number of rights violations in...
Turkish prosecutor issues detention warrant for pro-Kurdish HDP Co-chairperson Kemalbay
Turkish prosecutors on Friday issued a detention warrant for Serpil Kemalbay, co-chairperson of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Peoples’ Party (HDP), just two days before a...
US says ‘deeply concerned’ about conviction of NASA scientist Serkan Gölge
US State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert said at a press briefing on Thursday that the United States is deeply concerned about the conviction earlier...
Religious group leader critical of Turkish government put in pretrial detention
Alparslan Kuytul, president of the Furkan Foundation and leader of a religious group critical of the Turkish government, has been put in pre-trial detention...
No freedom of speech in Turkey even for the robots
A robot, that interrupted the speech of Ahmet Arslan, Turkish Minister of Transport and Communications, during a technology event in Ankara, was first silenced...
Turkish law professor: State of emergency commission AKP’s ‘gas chamber’
İbrahim Kaboğlu, a professor of constitutional law who was fired from Marmara University by a state of emergency decree on Feb. 7, 2017, said...
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