Turkish court accepts indictment seeking up to 23 years in prison for HDP deputy...
An indictment prepared by the Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office seeking between 9,5 and 23 years prison sentence for pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP)...
Jailed HDP deputy Encü given 55-month prison sentence on terror charges
Ferhat Encü, one of 11 jailed deputies from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), has been handed down a prison sentence of 55 months,...
Turkish court sentences 82-year-old Türk for 10 years over Gülen links, releases him from...
A Turkish court has sentenced 82-year-old Turkish man, who was in pre-trial detention for more than 15 months, in 10 years in prison over...
UN raises concerns over Turkey’s anti-terrorism legislation and measures imposed during 2016 state of...
Experts from the United Nations Human Rights Committee on Friday raised concerns about Turkey’s implementation of anti-terrorism legislation and its extensive use of emergency...
Turkish family detained while fleeing Turkey’s post-coup dragnet to Greece
Seven members of a Turkish family were detained in İzmir province while they were allegedly on their way to escape to Greece early on Tuesday. According...
Turkish gov’t detains and arrests tens of people over alleged links to Gülen movement
Turkish government has detained and arrested tens of people on Saturday as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt campaign targeting the alleged members...
A Turkish diplomat couple disappears in Greek city of Thessaloniki
A Turkish diplomat couple working in Greece has disappeared, state-run Anadolu news agency reported by basing on an anonymous diplomatic source on Saturday by...
70-year-old man kept in solitary confinement for 7 months over alleged coup involvement
Seventy-year-old Ahmet Akdoğan has been kept in solitary confinement for almost seven months over alleged links to the Gülen movement, which Turkish authorities accuse...
Lawyers for Turkey’s jailed Kurdish presidential candidate apply to ECtHR
Lawyers for Selahattin Demirtaş, the jailed presidential candidate of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), applied to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR)...
Police detain Kurdish mayor, hang Turkish flag on facade of town hall
A group of police officers in plain clothes detained Mehmet Aydın, the mayor of Mardin’s Savur district from the pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party (DBP) and...
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