Report: Turkey marks one year without Wikipedia
As of Sunday, Wikipedia has been banned in Turkey for one year, Paul Benjamin Osterlund wrote for The Verge, saying, “Authorities said the ban...
Jailed Turkish Air Forces’ colonel reportedly losses his life in İstanbul’s Silivri Prison because...
A Turkish lawyer has stated on Friday that a military officer jailed in İstanbul's notorious Silivri Prison has lost his life because of the...
65-year-old woman stripped naked before visiting son in Turkish prison
Süleyman Başer, a media consultant for the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) who spent 10 months in prison, said his septuagenarian mother had been...
Another police chief jailed over alleged Gülen links dies in Turkish prison
Fifty-two-year-old Ahmet Tatar, a police chief who was arrested as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement in Osmaniye province, has died in...
Jailed MP in Turkey stripped of parliamentary status despite top court rulings
The Turkish parliament announced in the plenary session on Tuesday a ruling by Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals upholding an 18-year prison sentence for...
Major says no one in Erdoğan assassination attempt trial has links to Gülen
One of 37 officers who are standing trial on charges of taking part in an assassination attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during a...
Turkey detains journalist Koray briefly for criticizing ‘July 15 saga’
Yeliz Koray, managing editor of the Kocaeli Koz newspaper, was briefly detained on Saturday night and referred to court for a critical article about...
Altınok: Turkish gov’t dismisses 22,987 police officers over alleged links to Gülen movement
Selami Altınok, the General Director of Turkish Police Department, has stated on Tuesday that 22,987 police officers have been dismissed from Turkish police department...
Germany boosts security measures for Turkish journalist Dündar after Erdoğan’s visit
Exiled Turkish journalist Can Dündar said German officials have increased security measures to protect him after a recent state visit to Germany by Turkish...
Demirtaş’s lawyer accused of joining HDP’s WhatsApp group
An indictment prepared against Levent Pişkin, a lawyer representing Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş, has revealed that he has been charged with...
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