Lawyer for defendants in MİT arms transportation case gets 7.5 years in prison
The lawyer who represented defendants in a case that exposed Turkish intelligence agency trucks carrying arms to Syria in 2014 was handed down a...
Turkish gov’t issues detention warrants for 72 people over alleged links to Gülen movement
The Ankara and Tokat chief public prosecutor’s offices on Friday have issued detention warrants for 72 people including 20 military officers over their alleged...
753 Turkish workers lost their lives in workplace accidents in last 4 months
At least 753 workers lost their lives in workplace accidents in Turkey during last 4 months following Turkish government's aggressive program titled “Declaration of...
Report reveals inmates in Turkish prisons not protected against coronavirus
A report drafted by the Jurists for Freedom Association (ÖHD) has revealed that inmates in Turkey’s overcrowded prisons are at high risk of contracting...
Turkey’s main opposition is discriminating, too, petition to high court reveals
Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) on June 11 appealed to the country’s Constitutional Court, challenging the constitutionality in substance of a discriminatory...
CHP deputy: Reyhanlı rockets fired from inside Turkish territory
Turkey's main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) deputy Mevlüt Dudu on Tuesday said rockets that killed one and injured 46 in the Reyhanlı district...
Turkey’s ruling AKP sues HDP deputy Ahmet Şık for alleged insult
Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) led by Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has filed a lawsuit against pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP)...
Turkish gov’t detains at least 61, including Gülen’s nephew, over links to Gülen movement
Turkish governement has detained at least 61 people, including Selman Gülen who is a nephew of the US-based Turkish-Muslim scholar Fethullah Gülen on Wednesday...
Detention warrants issued for 80 due to alleged Gülen links
Police teams on Monday were conducting simultaneous operations in a number of Turkish provinces in order to detain 80 people for whom detention warrants...
Woman whose family died fleeing Turkey detained over Gülen links
Gülfem Yeni, whose husband and two children died two years ago in the Aegean Sea while fleeing oppression in Turkey, was detained on Friday...
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