Turkey’s jailed human rights activist and businessman Kavala applies to ECtHR
Prominent human rights activist, Anadolu Kültür executive board chairman and businessman Osman Kavala, who has spent seven months in jail, announced on Monday that...
Let’s not be late for reinstatement of death penalty, MHP leader Bahçeli says
Leader of Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Devlet Bahçeli has called on the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government and Turkey's autocratic President Recep Tayyip...
45 jurists dismissed and 3 judges, who released 21 journalists, suspended over Gülen links
Forty five judges and prosecutors have been dismissed while three judges who have decided to release 21 jailed journalists on Friday, have been suspended by...
Germany says Turkey dropped terror link charge against German firms
Germany said Turkey had informed it on Monday that it had dropped accusations of “terrorism” funding against nearly 700 German companies amid an escalating...
Another Grup Yorum musician on hunger strike dies in prison on 297th day
Mustafa Koçak, a jailed member of the Grup Yorum band who had been on a hunger strike in a prison in western Turkey, died...
Turkey’s pro-Kurdish HDP not to attend opening of Parliament
Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) spokesperson Osman Baydemir said the HDP has decided not to attend the opening of Parliament on Oct. 1...
Turkey’s pro-gov’t media target German journalist over interview with opposition leader
Frank Nordhausen, an İstanbul-based German journalist, has become the latest victim and target of Turkey’s pro-government media outlets over his interview with the main...
Turkish gov’t detains 239 people over links to Gülen movement in past week
The Turkish government detained a total of 239 people last week (Sept.3-Sept.10) as part of its massive post-coup witch hunt targeting alleged members of...
Turkish teacher convicted of ‘praising terrorism’ to start serving prison sentence with baby
Ayşe Çelik, a Turkish teacher sentenced to one year, three months in prison over allegedly “praising terrorism and a terrorist organization” in a TV...
35 lawyers of suspects in Gülen movement trials detained
Turkish police on Thursday detained 35 lawyers who are defending suspects accused of links to the Gülen movement in several ongoing trials.
Arrest warrants were...
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