Turkey’s Constitutional Court orders compensation for former pro-Kurdish party executive

The Turkish Constitutional Court has ruled in favor of Can Memiş, a former member of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) central executive committee,...

44,675 investigated for insulting Turkish president since 2014: opposition MP

A total of 44,675 investigations have been launched by Turkish prosecutors into individuals on allegations of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan since his election...

Uyghur women marching from İstanbul to Ankara, demand Turkey help find their children in...

A group of Uyghur women in Turkey started a march from İstanbul to Ankara on Wednesday demanding that the Turkish government help locate their...

Teacher’s retrial after landmark ECtHR judgment starts under tight security measures

The retrial of Yüksel Yalçınkaya, a teacher whose conviction on terrorism charges was found by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to have violated his...

Three more social media users arrested for insulting Erdoğan

An Ankara court ruled on arrests of A.Ş., A.K. and N.K. for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on social media, according to Diken...

Jailed Turkish journalist Ahmet Turan Alkan: I will not apologize to the tyrant

Prominent Turkish columnist and political scientist Ahmet Turan Alkan, who used to write for Zaman daily which was closed by the government led by...

Cocaine worth billions flows through Turkey due to weakened rule of law: report

Turkey has become a significant hub for the global cocaine trade, with an estimated $2.9 to $5.8 billion worth of the drug passing through...

Turkish gov’t issues detention warrants for 87 people over alleged links to Gülen movement

The Turkish government issued detention warrants for 87 people across Turkey on Friday as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt targeting alleged members...

Turkey issued detention warrants for 34 former TRT employees over alleged ByLock use

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued detention warrants for 34 former employees of the state-run Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT) on...

Dutch police removes Erdoğan’s posters from facade of Rotterdam building

On Sunday night Dutch police removed large posters showing Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan from the facade of a building in Rotterdam. A...
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