TİM deputy head Kocasert and 5 businesman detained over alleged links to Gülen movement

Süleyman Kocasert, deputy chairman of Turkey's Exporter's Assembly (TİM) and the head of Denizli Exporters' Union (DENİB), was detained together with 5 other businessmen...

40 including head of catering company detained in Manisa food poisoning case

Forty people, including the general manager of a catering firm, have been detained in relation to the food poisoning of more than one thousand...

Daughter: Death of Turkish writer who fell from balcony during police raid suspicious

Şeyma Ölmez, the daughter of Turkish writer Mustafa Hikmet Kayapalı who passed away after allegedly falling from a three-storey-building in the Balıkesir province in May...

ARTICLE 19 submits expert opinion in Altan brothers’ trial in Turkey

International press freedom organization ARTICLE 19 has reportedly submited an expert opinion to İstanbul's 26th High Criminal Court examining the charges against prominent novelists...

Detained teacher severely tortured, his wife harrassed by Turkish police

Once an inspiring educator to his pupils, a Bartın teacher was detained with her hands cuffed behind back as a perceived enemy of the...

Judge, who imprisoned 517 people over alleged Gülen links, faces probe with same charges

Murat Taşhan, a Çorum judge who sent 517 people from 21 different occupations to prison over their alleged links to the Gülen movement, was...

Video footage shows man attacking woman for wearing shorts on İstanbul minibus

https://youtu.be/3kKW1CbnzwQ A video footage, revealed by the Birgün daily on Wednesday, shows a man, Ercan Kızılateş, attacking a woman, Melisa Sağlam, on a minibus in...

CHP deputy Tanrıkulu not allowed to make prison visits

Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) İstanbul deputy Sezgin Tanrıkulu has not been permitted to visit prisons since his last visit almost a...

Ultra-nationalist Perinçek says Turkey’s judicial system living its golden age

At a time when the Turkish judiciary is under intense criticism for acting on orders from the government, ultra-nationalist Homeland Party (VP) Chairman Doğu...

PEN Int’l and ARTICLE 19 draw attention to deterioration of freedom of expression, human...

International press freedom organizations PEN International and ARTICLE 19 have called the attention of the UN Human Rights Council to the relentless crackdown on...

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