Turkish court bans Periscope over copyright violation
A Turkish court on Tuesday banned all services of Periscope, a live video broadcasting platform owned by Twitter and popularly used by the opposition...
Fights between Turkey’s ruling AKP and pro-Kurdish DBP leave 4 dead
A series of fights in Şanlıurfa on Thursday between a ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) campaign team and the pro-Kurdish Democratic Regions Party...
Turkish court acquits hip hop artist Ezhel of all charges
Turkish rapper Ömer Sercan İpekçioğlu, popularly known as Ezhel, was acquitted of charges of encouraging drug use at the first hearing of his trial...
18 students, 3 teachers detained during Turkish police raid on prep school over Gülen...
Twenty-one people were detained in a Friday police raid on a prep school established by teachers who were earlier removed from their jobs by...
Russia’s Sputnik news agency closes Kurdish edition at Turkish gov’t’s request
Russia’s state-run Sputnik news agency has closed down its Kurdish-language website at the request of the Turkish government, according to a report by online...
Former governor of Turkey’s Bursa, jailed over Gülen links, released on bail
Şahabettin Harput, a former Turkish governor of the western province of Bursa who was arrested in August 2017 due to alleged links to the...
Academic from Scottish university arrested in Turkey for criticizing Erdoğan
An outspoken Aberdeen University academic has been arrested in Turkey for posting critical commentary online about the country’s leader.
Lawyer Hanifi Barış, who graduated from...
Turkish court sentences 84 defendants to aggravated life over their alleged role in coup...
A Turkish court on Thursday sentenced 84 defendants to aggravated life imprisonment in a major case concerning a controversial coup attempt on July 15,...
Turkish court acquits Cumhuriyet journalist Gül of ‘revealing state secrets’
The İstanbul 14th High Criminal Court on Monday acquitted Cumhuriyet daily journalist Erdem Gül of charges of “revealing state secrets” in a June 12,...
Turkish gov’t launches legal proceedings against 445,000 people since coup bid in 2016
Hundreds of thousands of people in Turkey have been the subject of legal proceedings in the last two years on charges of membership in...
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