Turkish Court accepts indictment demanding 2 consecutive life sentences for 13 journalists
An indictment drafted by the İstanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office that seeks two consecutive life sentences for 13 people, including prominent Turkish journalists and...
EU countries to grant 5-year renewable residence permits to asylum seekers
European Parliament’s Civil Liberties Committee approved a regulation on Thursday that grants residence permits for all beneficiaries of international protection in the EU for...
Turkey bans access to 18 web pages, including sites revealing facts about failed coup
A Turkish court has banned access to 18 web pages, including Twitter accounts, news websites and blogs that reveal facts about a failed coup...
Turkish court gives 2 years of prison sentence for pro-Kurdish HDP deputy Tan
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Altan Tan was sentenced to 2 years in prison by a Turkish court on Thursday. The court has...
Turkey’s ruling AKP’s Aybek posing with MP5 machine gun released
Mehmet Aybek, a member of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) youth branch, who was detained by police following he shared a photo...
HDP deputies start sit-in at Turkey’s Constitutional Court as ‘March of Justice’ goes on
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputies have started a sit-in at the Constitutional Court building in Ankara protesting the arrest of its deputies, the...
Turkish PM’s chief advisor Erdem referred to court for arrest
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım’s chief advisor, Birol Erdem, who was detained on June 3 in Ankara as part of a witch-hunt targeting the...
60-year old man attends ‘March of Justice,’ sleeps outdoors to protest son’s arrest on...
A 60-year-old Turkish man whose son has been held in İstanbul’s Silivri Prison for over 10 months on coup charges participated in a “March...
IFJ- EFJ call for urgent medical care for jailed Turkish journalist Çetinkaya
The European and International Federations of Journalists (EFJ-IFJ) has called on Turkish authorities to provide urgent medical care to Turkish journalist Tuncer Çetinkaya who...
US says not to tolerate individuals using intimidation to stifle freedom of speech
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said there will be no tolerance for those using intimidation and violence to suppress freedom of expression...
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