Turkish rapper detained for allegedly encouraging drug use in songs
Ömer Sercan İpekçioğlu, a Turkish rapper also known as Ezhel, was detained on Thursday, accused of encouraging drug use in his songs, the Hürriyet...
Turkish court sentences psychologist to 10,5 years in prison over alleged links to Gülen...
Ercan Eroğlu, an İstanbul psychologist, was sentenced to 10 years and 6 months in prison over his alleged links to the Gülen movement on Thursday.
The reason...
12 people detained while trying to flee from Turkey’s post-coup crackdown to Greece
Twelve people were stopped by gendarmes and detained in Edirne province over the weekend while they were reportedly on their way to Greece, Turkish media reported...
ECtHR faults Turkey for detaining 82 judges and prosecutors after failed 2016 coup
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled on Tuesday that Turkey violated the European Convention on Human Rights by detaining 82 judges and...
Turkish gov’t prevents sacked teachers to work in private sector
Turkish government ordered private companies to not hire teachers who were dismissed from public schools as part of massive purge launched against critics and...
Pro-government Turkish journalist threatens opposition leader
"Turkey’s leftist main opposition Republican People’s Party should nominate popular nationalist politician Meral Akşener as its candidate for president in the June elections,"...
HDP candidate Demirtaş says in TRT speech that Erdoğan’s ‘regime of fear’ yet to...
Selahattin Demirtaş, the jailed presidential candidate of Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party’s (HDP), appeared on national TV for the first time on Sunday since...
Bugün TV sold by Turkish gov’t to a ‘triggerman’ convicted of plundering, murder
The satellite and cable broadcasting licenses of Bugün TV, which used to be owned by İpek Media Group that was allegedly affiliated with the...
ECtHR faults Turkey for arrest of 314 people over Gülen links after failed coup
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that the pretrial detention of 314 people after a failed coup against Turkish President Recep...
Pro-gov’t journalist confesses MİT abducted, illegally questioned Gülen followers
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Abdurrahman Şimşek, Sabah’s special editor for intelligence reporting, admitted on Friday that Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MİT) abducted several people who have links to...
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