Demirtaş says Turkish gov’t keeps HDP members in jail for early elections
Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party's (HDP) jailed Co-chairperson Selahattin Demirtaş has said HDP deputies are being kept in prison as part of a government...
Five-year-old Kurdish boy killed after being hit by Turkish police car
A five-year-old kid lost his life at a hospital on Saturday after being hit by a police car in Diyarbakır city centre. It was...
Pro-Kurdish HDP urges gov’t to clarify death of Murat Araç in Turkish police custody
Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Ayşe Acar Başaran on Monday called on the government to clarify questions concerning the death of Murat...
Turkish court rules to keep jailed journalist Baransu in prison
An İstanbul court on Monday ruled to keep in prison former Taraf daily journalist Mehmet Baransu, who was jailed in March 2015 after he...
Turkey’s OHAL Commission decides to reinstate 310 out of 12,000 applicants dismissed by gov’t...
The State of Emergency Procedures Investigation Commission (OHAL Commission) has examined the cases of 12,000 applicants who were dismissed by government decrees under a...
Boğaziçi University’s students protest partisan rector appointed by Turkey’s Erdoğan at graduation ceremony
Students at Turkey's prestigious Boğaziçi University staged a protest at their graduation ceremony against its pr0-Erdoğan and partisan rector Mehmed Özkan who was appointed by...
An anonymous judge reveals severe situation in Turkey’s judiciary in a letter
A letter by a Turkish judge who wrote to journalist Ahmet Dönmez for the TR724 news portal has revealed the severity of the situation...
Turkish men in Washington D.C. brawl left Canada and went to Turkey
Two Canadian citizens of Turkish-origin, who took part in the attack on peaceful protesters in Washington D.C. in May 2017, handed over their companies...
Turkish gov’t aims to bring researchers back home after dismissing thousands of them
A program to bring Turkish researchers back home will be launched on Dec. 15, said Mustafa Varank, Turkey’s Technology and Industry Minister on Wednesday,...
Jailed Turkish journalist slams discrimination done by CHP and TGC among jailed journalists
Jailed journalist Emre Soncan, who has been imprisoned in infamous Silivri Prison for 425 days, has complained about discrimination done by Turkey Journalists Association...
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