Turkey’s Atilla says he has never conspired with Zarrab to evade US sanctions
Mehmet Hakan Atilla, a former manager at Turkey’s state-run Halkbank, who is one of nine Turks indicted in the sanctions-evasion scheme but the only one...
Turkish gov’t detains dozens of pro-Kurdish HDP, DBP members in İstanbul and İzmir
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) local office in İstanbul’s Kadikoy district was raided by the police early Tuesday while 55 members of HDP and...
4-year-old boy wounded after being hit by police car in eastern Turkey
A civilian vehicle used by the police hit 4-year-old boy Umut Ö. in the Aşağı neighborhood in İdil district of Şırnak province on Sunday....
Three Yezidi girls, left by ISIL in Turkey, handed over to their families in...
Three children from the Kurdish Yezidi community who were abducted by the militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in...
Jailed media designer Fevzi Yazıcı threatened by Turkish gov’t, put in solitary confinement over...
Fevzi Yazıcı, the jailed media designer and the art director of the now-closed-down Zaman daily, was threatened at police headquarters to admit having carried...
Jailed Turkish lawyer Arslan, award winning head of dissolved YARSAV, faces groundless charges
Jailed lawyer Murat Arslan, president of the now dissolved Association for the Union of Judges and Prosecutors (YARSAV), who won the Parliamentary Assembly of...
Pro-Kurdish HDP urges gov’t to clarify death of Murat Araç in Turkish police custody
Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Ayşe Acar Başaran on Monday called on the government to clarify questions concerning the death of Murat...
Human rights group urges foreign gov’ts to ensure safety of Gülen followers
US/Virginia-based human rights organization Advocates of Silenced Turkey (AST) in a piece on Huffington Post has called on foreign governments to ensure the safety...
Erdoğan’s lawyers ask Twitter to censor Carlos Latuff’s 11 cartoons
The legal team of Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has sent a court decision to Twitter ordering the censoring of 80 posts including...
Turkish court releases 6 including German journalist Meşale Tolu
An İstanbul court on Monday released German journalist Meşale Tolu along with five others on judicial probation, Cumhuriyet reported.
Tolu, who was detained in April...
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