Official documents reveal illegal profiling of alleged Gülen movement followers
Official documents shared on Twitter by a former prosecutor showed how Ministry of Health bureaucrats profiled alleged followers of the faith-based Gülen movement in...
Turkish Finance Minister Albayrak’s ‘thesis writer’ elected BIST board chairman
Professor Erişah Arıcan, who allegedly wrote the Ph.D. thesis of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s son-in-law and Treasury and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak, was elected...
Turkish police detains 30 people for ‘insulting’ wife of pro-Erdogan TV presenter
İstanbul police detain at least 30 people for insulting Şeyma Subaşı, the wife of Turkey’s one of the richest and well-known TV presenters, Acun...
Pro-gov’t journalist implies assassination for Turkey’s main opposition leader
Fatih Tezcan, a pro-government public speaker and columnist, on Monday implied that main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) Chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu would be assassinated...
Turkish authorities impose advertising ban on Evrensel daily over critical reporting
Turkey’s Press Advertising Agency (BİK), the state body responsible for regulating publicly funded advertisements in the media, has imposed a 10-day advertising ban on...
Turkish court not released 20 jailed journalists despite of witnesses’ contrary statements
A Turkish court has ruled for continuation of imprisonment for 19 journalists despite of the lack of solid evidences and the statements made by...
Turkey will refrain from providing further information on Kavala case to OHCHR
A letter recently sent by the Turkish Permanent Mission to the UN Office in Geneva to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for...
Turkish justice minister signals unwillingness to interpret ECtHR ruling as precedent, defying expectations
Turkish Minister of Justice Yılmaz Tunç on Thursday said the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) judgment on a former teacher’s conviction on links...
Jailed prosecutor kept in solitary confinement with broken arms
Despite his both arms were broken, Muzaffer Bayram, a former prosecutor in Kütahya province has been held in solitary confinement in prison according to...
Turkish police once again stop ‘Saturday Mothers’ protest for disappeared people
Turkish riot police on Saturday stopped a group known as the Saturday Mothers, who have gathered every week since the 1980s to silently protest...
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