Former Kurdish deputy resigns from pro-Kurdish HDP after comments on ‘Turk leader’
A former parliamentarian for Turkey’s pro-Kurdish opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has resigned from the party after being criticised by party officials for saying...
Turkish court rules for continuation of journalist Ece Sevim Öztürk’s pretrial imprisonment
A Turkish court ruled for the continuation of the pretrial detention of Ece Sevim Öztürk, an investigative journalist who has been behind bars since...
Asylum seeker in Panama faces extradition to Turkey despite risk of torture
Muaz Türkyılmaz, a Turkish businessman who was arrested at the airport as he was leaving Panama in September, is facing extradition to Turkey, where...
Pro-Kurdish, leftist journalists detained by Turkish gov’t on Friday released
Five pro-Kurdish and leftist journalists who were detained in police raids on their houses early Friday have been released, the T24 news website reported...
Turkish border forces detain 4 people over Gülen links while trying to flee to...
Turkish border security forces on Monday detained four people identified as İ.A., Ç.B., T.B. and M.A. in the border zone of Edirne province over...
Ministry: 94,000 fired, 30,000 suspended from state posts over alleged Gülen links since July...
Turkey’s Ministry of Labor and Social Security announced on Tuesday that a total of 94,867 people have been fired while 30,618 others have been...
US pastor Brunson indictment cites mobile phone signals as evidence of ‘terrorism’
New details have been published by the state-run Anadolu news agency concerning the indictment filed for Andrew Brunson, an American pastor facing 35 years...
Five people including a mother with 3-month-old baby detained over HDP membership
Five members of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democracy Party (HDP) have been detained in Mardin over alleged charges of terrorism, according to the Evrensel daily.
Among...
Turkey’s purge victims protest against gov’t policies that lead to youth suicides
A nongovernmental organization founded by victims of Turkey’s post-coup purge held a protest in İstanbul’s Kadıköy district on Tuesday, drawing attention to government policies...
Turkish court sentences 10 TRT journalists to prison over alleged links to Gülen movement
A Turkish court on Wednesday sentenced 10 journalists who used to work for Turkish public broadcaster TRT to between six years, three months and...
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