Turkish singer Atilla Taş detained to serve sentence for alleged links to Gülen movement
Atilla Taş, a former singer and a columnist for the now-closed Meydan daily, was detained by police on Friday morning for the execution of...
At least 44 people, including AP reporter, detained by police at İstanbul’s banned LGBT...
At least 44 people were detained at the LGBT Pride March in İstanbul’s Taksim Square on Sunday, as tension rose after the İstanbul Governor’s...
21-year-old says sentenced to 21 years without ever appearing in Turkish court
Alişan Taburoğlu, a 21-year-old student from Akdeniz University, has written a letter to former Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Barış Yarkadaş saying he has...
Top judicial board removes 5 prosecutors from jobs due to alleged Gülen links
Turkey’s Supreme Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK) has removed five prosecutors from their jobs due to their alleged links to the Gülen movement,...
Wife of police chief, suffering from COVID-19, detained in hospital, handcuffed to bed
Esmahan Demirhan, the wife of a former police chief who led corruption investigations in Turkey in 2013, was detained in the hospital where she...
Professor detained over alleged Gülen links while working at excavation site
Prof. Dr. Abdüsselam Uluçam, former rector of the Batman University and the head of the excavation team at Hasankeyf’s historical area, was detained as...
Turkey bans Kurdish footballer Deniz Naki from professional football
Weeks after reporting that his car was shot at on a German motorway, midfielder Deniz Naki, the Amed SK player who is a supporter...
Turkish mother Elif Açıkgöz, detained just hours after delivery over Gülen links, released by...
Elif Açıkgöz, whom Turkish police has detained at Avrupa Hospital in Adana province just hours after she gave birth by cesarean section, over alleged links...
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...
Turkey blocks access to online encyclopedia Wikipedia
Turkey has blocked online encyclopedia Wikipedia, the telecommunications watchdog, the Turkish Telecommunications Authority (BTK), said on Saturday, citing a law allowing it to ban...
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