Turkish courts jail 44 more military officers over alleged Gülen links
Turkish courts ruled to jail at least 47 people, including 44 military officers on active duty, in İstanbul and Ankara as part of its massive...
Turkey bans journalism awards ceremony due to state of emergency
The Beyoğlu district governor’s office in İstanbul banned a journalism awards ceremony named after Kurdish dissident writer and activist Musa Anter and planned to...
AKP deputy visited General Staff headquarters on July 15, indictment reveals
Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy Şirin Ünal visited the headquarters of the General Staff in Ankara hours before a failed coup on July...
Prosecutor issues detention warrant for 100 over alleged links to Gülen movement
Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 100 people across 31 provinces who include high-level administrators over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement....
Basic human rights of detainees violated systematically in Turkey’s Hilvan Prison
The detainees have been held in dire conditions and their essential human rights have been violated systematically in Hilvan T1 and T2 prisons in...
Zarrab trial to start despite Ankara’s allegations of a ‘plot’ against Turkey
The trial of a Turkish-Iranian gold trader starts in New York this week, straining already tense Turkey-US relations, with Ankara claiming the prosecution is...
AKP deputy urges Turkey to investigate spying activities by Germany
Amid tensions between Turkey and Germany over spying imams, ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy Metin Külünk urged prosecutors to investigate possible spying...
Turkey’s main opposition leader Kılıçdaroğlu criticises Erdoğan’s ‘silence’ on Zarrab case in US
Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has criticised Turkish autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for accusing him of slandering businesspeople...
Number of lawyers behind bars increases to 410 as 3 more arrested over alleged...
Arrest of 3 more lawyers by Turkish government over alleged Gülen links in Kayseri on Monday has increased the number of lawyers in jail...
With husband already in jail, woman along with two children detained in post-coup witch...
Nearly seven months after former public worker B.K. was arrested, his wife and two children were also detained as part of a government witch...
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